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A Royal Lineage: 



ALFRED THE GREAT 



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Commendation from Prof. Lyon Gardiner 
Tyler, of William and Mary College. 

I have read this vakiable book, and cordially commend it 
for its general interest and accuracy, for the scope which it pre- 
sents, its literary merit, and the skill with which the subject is 
handled. It is the work of a careful and conscientious writer, 
who has won recognition in other departments of literary en- 
deavor, and who in this volume has succeeded in presenting in 
condensed form the result of much painstaking study. The 
royal line herein traced is undoubtedly historic, and it ought to 
be an inspiration to many people in our country to learn that 
some of the blood of the illustrious King Alfred courses 
through their veins. This book wull draw many persons closer 
to the great king, and his noble example, being made more 
realistic by the tie of relationship, cannot but be invigorating 

and purifying to them. 

Lyon G. Tyleel 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Cover Design — The Golden Dragon, 

Reade "Arms," 

Percy "Arms," 

Mortimer "Arms, 

Warner "Arms," 

Howell "Arms," 

Dymoke "Arms," 

Lewis "Arms," 

Robinson "Arms,' 

Westminster Hall. 

Westminster Hall. 

Tamworth Castle. 

The King's Champion. 

Marmion. 

Charter of Tamworth Castle. 

Alexander Robinson, 

Augustine Warner 

Dymoke "Arms," with quarterings from "Scrivelsby." 

Rose "Arms." 

The Lion Gateway from "Scrivelsby." 

Brass in Chapel from "Scrivelsby." 

Neville "Arms." 



W. C. West. 
Jane C. Slaughter. 



Bessie C. Grinnan. 



Old Portrait. 
Old Portrait. 



AUTHORITIES. 

Green's History of the English People. 

Alfred the Great. By Sir Walter Besant and others. 

Annals of the House of Percy. By Edward Barrington De Fon- 

blanque. 
Scrivelsby. By Reverend Samuel Lodge. M. A. 
Americans of Royal Descent. Browning. 
William and Mary College Quarterly. 
Virginia Historical Magazine. 
Weir's History of Horncastle. 
W. Jones' Crowns and Coronations. 
Banks' History of the Marniyuns. 
Palmer's History of the House of Marmion. 
London Encyclopaedia. 

Sharon Turner's History of the Anglo-Saxons. 
National Dictionary of Biography. 
Gentleman's Magazine, 1790, 18.21. 1802. 
Burke's History of the Commoners. 
Burke's Peerage. 

Curiosities of Popular Customs. Walsh. 
Benjamin Rush. Court of St. James. 
Burke's Landed Gentry. 
Strickland's Queens of England, 
Hume's History of England. 
Cabells and Their Kin. Alexander Brown. 
Lancelot's Queens of England. 
Hughes' Alfred the Great. 
Le Neve's Pedigrees of Knights. 
County Records. Land Grants. 
Hotten's List of Emigrants. 
History of the Ancient Ryedales. By Rev. G. T. Ridlon. 




poem. 



The divine command, " Honor thy father and thy 
mother," may not be Hmited in its application to one genera- 
tion. Its influence should lead to the honoring of our most 
remote ancestors — to the emulation of their virtues and the 
avoidance of their vices ; to a recognition of the efforts made 
by them for the betterment of mankind, and a loyal pride in 
all the good by them accomplished. 

Thou art no aimless drift from wreck of ocean, 

Upon a shore unconscious, idlj' cast. 
Thou art inheritor of primal forces ! 

To-dav holds in solution all the Past! 



Annaii Robinson Watson. 



Memphis, Tenn. 



A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 



901— 1901 




T is claimed l)y many ancient writers that 
about the time of the Christian era a war- 
like prince of Asia left his kingdom near 
the Black Sea and came, with a mighty 
band of followers, to the Northwestern 
peninsula of Europe. 

According to these early historians, he 
established rule over a vast extent of country, which was inherited 
by his posterity, and nine generations later his descendant Cerdic 
founded the Kingdom of Wessex, 519. 

Of this kingdom, Winton Ceaster \vas the capital, and here was 
established the "Sanctuary of the house of Cerdic and Minster of the 
West Saxons." The present Cathedral of Winchester, begun in 1079, 
consecrated 1093, is supposed to stand upon the same spot as the 
edifice of Cerdic, and a still earlier temple built by the Romans. 

Christianity in Britain was already several centuries old, for three 
British bishops were present at the Council of yVrles, in Gaul. A. D. 
314. The ruined xA.bbey of Glastonbury, in Somerset, is called "the 



lo A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

cradle of British Christianity," but just at what date it was established 
may not be positively stated. About the time of Cerdic or his imme- 
diate descendants the place was known as Ynys Avallon, or the Isle of 
Avallon. Here w^as the home of King Arthur, and here gathered his 
knights of the "Table Round," here was Arthur laid to rest, and 
hither came King Henry the Second to visit his sacred tomb. Here 
assembled in 1897 bishops of the Anglican communion from all parts 
of the world, and in this year of our Lord, 1901, have some of the 
sacred stones from the ruins of Glastonbury been brought to America 
to be used as a memorial in the Cathedral of Washington. It is a 
solemn and significant thought that the Church of God bears testi- 
mony through these historic stones to an existence which dates back to 
a period only a few centuries later than the life of the Saviour; bears 
testimony to the continuity of the church and to the hereditary 
religious legacy of her children. Descending from Cerdic came 
Cynric, Ceawlin, Cuthwin, Cutha, Ceolwald, Cenred, Ingild, Eoppa, 
Eafa, Ealhmund, King of Wessex, and Egbert, 800-836. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 



1 1 



Egbert, King of 
Wessex, married 
Raedburh. 
800-836. 



This Egbert, King of Wessex and grand- 
father of Alfred the Great, spent many years 
during his youth at the court of Charle- 
magne. Here he found the best opportuni- 
ties for culture and training offered by the 
age in which he lived, and, making good use 
of them, developed into a wise and broad- 
minded ruler of his peoi)le. 



Ethelwolt, son of 
Egbert and his 
wife, Raedburh, 
married Osburga, 
daughter of Oslac, 
cup-bearer to 
Egbert, King of 
Wessex. 836-858. 



Ethelwolf, son of Egbert, King of Wes- 
sex, succeeded his father. He was of a pious 
and studious habit ; made many journeys to 
Rome, and donated to the Roman See large 
sums from his royal income. After the death 
of his first wife, Osljurga, he married Judith, 
daughter of Charles le Bald. The rare books 
of this monarch were among the wonders of 
the age. His illuminated Gospels bound in 
ivory were marvels of beauty, and some of 
the riches of his library are 3^et preserved in 
the collections of Paris. 

Judith doubtless exercised a distinct ami 
formative influence upon the character of her 
young stepson, for she carried with her to 



12 



A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



Ethelwolf. 



the court of Ethelwolf the impress of an 
environment unusual for its culture and 



learning. 



Alfred **the 
Great," son of 
Ethelwolf and his 
wife, Osburga, 
married the 
Lady Ealhswyth, 
daughter of 
Ethelred Mucil, 
Earl of Gaini, 
in Mercia. 
849-901. 



Alfred the Great was born at the Palace 
of Wantage, and buried at Winton Ceaster, 
or Winchester. He died in 901, and the 
world has now, in 1901, reached the one 
thousandth anniversary of that event. 
Looking back over this period, it is fitting 
that all students, and more especially those 
who trace their lineage to this monarch, 
should pause to do him reverence; in the 
words of the English Laureate — 

"Some lights there be within the heavenly spheres, 
Yet unrevealed, the interspace so vast; 
So through the distance of a thousand years, 
Alfred's full radiance shines on us at last." 

At an early age Alfred accompanied his 
father, Ethelwolf, to Rome. Here he resided 
during a period of some length, and was 
doubtless instructed in the languages, in 
poesy and music. It is said that later he 
traveled much in his own country, and so 
probably it chanced that he met the fair Lady 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 13 

Alfred the Great. Ealhswyth, daughter of an Earl of Mercia, 

and descended through her mother from the 
early Alercian kings. It is said that the 
wooing and wedding were somewhere in the 
Lincohishire of to-day ; that the devoted pair 
tarried in Ealhswyth's home for a time, and 
that when duty summoned the future king 
of Wessex elsewhere, the young wife re- 
mained in her father's halls until Alfred was 
ready to have her join him. This she did 
during his winter in lonely Athelnaye, 'Isle 
of Princess," and in these darkest hours of 
his Hfe she was doubtless his greatest solace. 
From this desolate habitation, surrounded by 
forest and morass, Alfred came forth when 
the winter had passed, with a scant follow- 
ing, and unfurled his banner, on which 
blazed the "Golden Dragon/' "a hero as 
bold as Launcelot and as spotless as Gala- 
had." 

The Golden Dragon had long been the 
standard of his people, some authorities 
claiming that it was brought to Britain by 
the Romans ; some that it was the standard 
of Arthur Pendragon, of the Table Round, 
the Welsh king, whose followers were van- 
quished by the warriors of Wessex. 



14 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Alfred the Great. It seems to have been sometimes a great 

metal figure fastened to a staff, and borne 
before the conquering hosts, but upon the 
standard of Alfred is thought to have been 
embroidered in gold by the fair Ealhs- 
wyth. 

The Golden Dragon is said to have led 
the Saxons in the battle of Hastings; the 
army of Henry the Seventh on the field of 
Bosworth, and also to have been used by 
Henry the Eighth and Queen Elizabeth. 

The period of isolation upon the "Isle of 
Princess" had been as well a period of medi- 
tation and preparation, and Alfred now en- 
tered upon a time of intense physical and 
intellectual activity. His soul was fired by 
the high resolve which never, through all his 
after life, wavered, nor lost its dominant 
power — to serve his subjects to the utmost, 
to uplift, enlighten, ennoble and Christianize 
them. "King by the grace of God"' was the 
thouo-ht ever in his mind, and armored in the 



't>' 



grace of God did he go forth to do battle 
with the enemies of his people. 

Probably his greatest gift was a rare 
administrative ability, a capacity to bring 
order out of chaos, to make a wise adjust- 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 15 

Alfred the Great. ment, and use of materials at hand. He 

occupied a lofty pinnacle of observation, 
from which he commanded the forces under 
him, and though the victim of a serious 
physical ailment, devoted himself unremit- 
tingly to the labors undertaken. 

Through a many-sided character richly 
dowered with a variety of gifts, he reached 
out to all the interests and needs of his peo- 
ple. He was a wise master-builder of a 
nation, and withal a warrior, a law-giver, a 
Christian, and a man "who reverenced his 
conscience as his king." He was also a 
forceful writer; in truth, he was the father 
of English prose. 

Had he done nothing for posterity be- 
yond his contributions to literature, he would 
even then deserve to be called "great," for 
the literary movement, in a sense reforma- 
tion, which he inaugurated, swept in ever- 
widening circles from his day to that of the 
Conquest. 

He prefaced his code of laws with the 
words, "Thus saith the Lord, I am the Lord 
thy God." It was followed by the divine 
injunction, "Whatsoever ye would that men 
should do to you, do even so to them." 



i6 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Alfred the Great. He left many wise sayings, some of 

which are colored by the sadness so often 
found in the meditations of philosophers. 
"Desirest thou power," he said, ''but thou 
shalt never obtain it without sorrows — 
sorrows from strange folk, and yet keener 
sorrows from thine own kindred." Again, 
"He who will investigate fame wisely and 
earnestly will perceive how little it is, how 
precarious, how frail, how bereft it is of all 
that is good." 

Somewhat the same spirit is discovered 
in portions of his verse. The following is 
taken from the jubilee edition of his works : 

" Worldliness brought me here 
Foolishly blind, 
Riches have wrought me here 

Sadness of mind; 
When I rely on them, 

Lo they depart — 
Bitterly, fie on them ! 
Rend they my heart." 

He was "every inch a king," and gifted 
far above his fellows with graces of mind 
and body. Throughout all his years he wore 
"the white flower of a blameless life," and 
coming upon the hour in which was to be 
relinquished his earthly tabernacle, laid him 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 17 

Alfred the Great. down calmly, saying, "I have sought to live 

worthily the while I lived, and after my life 
to leave to the men that come after me a re- 
membering of me in good works." 

American institutions were builded, at 
least in some degree, by men who shared the 
blood of Alfred the Great; they will be up- 
held and protected by men who re\-ere and 
hold sacred this noble heritage. 

It is the record of such lives that "feeds 
the high tradition of the world," the emula- 
tion of such virtues as he made manifest that 
will nourish and stimulate to highest devel- 
opment the manhood of the race. Through 
one thousand years has throbbed his death- 
less influence — the realms of letters, of edu- 
cation, of science, of religion have widened 
and deepened, and reached upward in re- 
sponse to the impulse imparted by his trans- 
cendent personality. 

If the race aspires to the possession of 
heroes in the future, it must honor its heroes 
of the past, and highest on the roll of heroes 
must be placed the name of the "hero king of 
Wessex, the hero founder of England." 



i8 



A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



Edward " the 
Elder," son of 
Alfred the Great 
and his wife, 
Ealhswyth, 
married Edgiva. 
901-925. 



During the continuous and successful 
action against the Danes which characterized 
the reign of Edward, he proved himself a 
wise as well as war-like prince. He was 
notably assisted by the intelligence and pru- 
dence of his noble sister, the Lady Ethelfleda, 
widow of Ethelbert, Earl of Mercia. Ed- 
ward "the Elder" v.as the first of his line to 
claim the title " Rex Anglorum." His 
daughter. Princess Edgiva, married Charles 
the Third, King of France. From them 
descended, in the sixth generation, Elizabeth 
or Isobel de Vermandois. 



Edmund "the 
First," son of 
Edward *'the 
Elder" and his 
wife, Edgiva, 
married Elgiva. 
940-946. 



Edmund "the First" reigned less than six 
years, but during this period, among other 
notable deeds, he conquered Cumberland, 
and conferred it upon the King of Scotland. 
In exchange, the Scots were to protect Eng- 
land on the nctrth from the Danes, and their 
king to do homage to Edmund. Edmund 
was assassinated in his own hall by Leofu, a 
notorious roljber, whom he had banished. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 



19 



Edgar, son of 
Edmund '*the 
First" and his 
wife, Elgiva, mar- 
ried Aelfthryth. 

958-975. 



The reign of Edgar was nndistiirbed by- 
domestic tumult or foreign invasion, which 
was probal)]y due to the fact that he kept a 
large armament, both military and naval. 
This period is notable for the supremacy- 
acquired by the Benedictine monks. 



Ethelred ''the 
Unready," son of 
Edgar and his 
wife, Aelfthryth, 
married Emma 
of Normandy. 
979-1016. 



Ethelred "the Unready" was one of the 
most cruel monarchs the English throne has 
known. He married in looi Emma, daugh- 
ter of Richard (third Duke of Normandy, 
and grandson of Rollo the Ganger), and his 
second wife, Gunnor. After the death of 
Ethelred, Emma married Canute. 



Edmond *' Iron- 
sides," son of 
Ethelred "the 
Unready" and 
his wife, Emma 
of Normandy, 
married Sigeferth. 
1016. 



Edmond was noted for his hardy valor, 
but during so short a reign had but scant 
time to prove his noble parts. Me held the 
crown only from April to November, 1016, 
when he was murdered through the machina- 
tions of Edric, Duke of IMercia. 



20 



A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



Edward, called 
"the Outlaw," 
son of Edmond 
" Ironsides" and 
his wife, Sigeferth, 
married Agatha, 
a German Princess. 
He died 1057. 



Edward had lived many years in Hun- 
gary when recalled by his uncle, Edward 
"the Confessor." Only a few days after 
returning to England with his three children, 
the Atheling Edgar, Margaret, and Christina, 
he died. In Edgar the male Saxon line be- 
came extinct. Christina entered a convent. 



Margaret Atheling, 
daughter of 
Edward and his 
wdfe, Agatha, 
married Malcolm 
Canmore, King 
of Scots. 
1055-1093. 



Malcolm Canmore was son of Duncan, 
king of Scots, who was murdered by Mac- 
beth. His mother was the daughter of 
Siward, Earl of Northumberland, spoken of 
by Shakespeare as "Warlike Siward." He 
was descended from a long line of royal 
ancestors, extending back to Heremon, King 
of Ireland, 580 B. C, who is said to have 
married the Princess Tea-Tephi, a direct 
descendant of King David of Israel. 

Margaret, called the "Saint," and her 
husband Malcolm, originated many notable 
enterprises in Scotland. They founded the 
famous Dunfermline Abbey, and there 
established Culdee monks, followers of St. 
Columba. Later these were succeeded by the 
canons regular of St. Augustine. It is 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 21 

Margaret Athelincr. claimed that with the Princess Tea-Tephi 

were brought to Ireland many priceless relics 
showing the Hebrew identity and royal 
descent of her people, among them the 
Jodham Morani, or priest's breast-plate, the 
harp of King David, Sweet Singer of Israel, 
and the famous coronation stone of the 
Kings of Ireland, Scotland and England. 
This stone, tradition states, is the identical 
pillow upon which the head of Jacob rested 
at Bethel; that it was carried to Egypt by 
his sons, and became sacred in the eyes of 
their descendants. It is called "The Stone of 
Fate," or fortune, and spoken of in old 
records as "the ancientcst respected monu- 
ment in the world." It was carried from 
Ireland to Scotland before the reign of Ken- 
neth, A. D. 854. This Kenneth, ancestor of 
Malcolm Canmore, found it enclosed in a 
wooden chair at Dunstaffnage, a royal castle, 
and removed it to the Abbey of Scone. Here 
for four hundred and fifty years "all kingis 
of Scotland was crownit ui)on it, or ([uliil ye 
time of Robert Bruse. In quhais tyme. be- 
sides mony otiier crueltis done by kyng 
Edward, Lang Scliankis, tlie said chair of 
Merbyll wes talk in be Inglismen and brocht 



22 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Margaret Atheling. out of Scone to London, and put into West- 

monister quhaer it renianis to our dayes." 
An ancient Irish prophecy declared, "The 
race of Scots of the true blood, if this 
prophecy be not false, unless they possess the 
Stone of Fate, shall fail to obtain regal 
power." King- Kenneth had these words 
carven on the stone, and there they remain to 
this day — 

"Or Fate is blind, 
Or Scots shall find, 
Where'er this stone 
A royal throne." 



Edward the First brought the magic 
stone to England, and built for it the chair, 
in which it may still be seen. Since the time 
of Edward, England's sovereigns have re- 
ceived tlieir crowns seated here, a robe of 
cloth of gold being throw^n over the wood 
which encases the stone. It was used at the 
coronation of Queen Victoria, and again in 
her jubilee festivities. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 



23 



Matilda of Scot- 
land, daughter of 
Margaret Atheling 
and her husband, 
Malcolm Canmore, 
King of Scots, 
married Henry 
First of England, 
who died i i 35. 



Henry the First was the son of WilHam 
the Conqueror and his wife, Matilda, daugh- 
ter of Baldwin, Count of Flanders, and his 
wife, Princess Adelaide, daughter of Robert, 
King of France. She was also a descendant 
of the mighty Charlemagne, who was not 
only one of the greatest rulers the world has 
known, but a Christian and an apostle of 
culture in the highest sense. His court was a 
centre of refinement and education, and its 
fame was disseminated to such distant parts 
that the great Caliph, Haroun-al-Rashid, 
sent in 801 an embassy to bear him gifts and 
greeting. His aims and aspirations were 
lofty, and the world has not yet ceased to pay 
homage to his genius. 

William the Conqueror, Duke of Nor- 
mandy, was sixth in descent from Rollo the 
Ganger and his wife, Giselle. This marriage 
took place soon after the appearance of Rollo 
in France, about the same time he received 
baptism, and became a Christian ruler of a 
Christian people. 

That was a notable race which found its 
fullest expression and most complete type in 
the person of Willirun the Conqueror. His 
ancestor, Rollo the Northman, with his 



24 



A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



Matilda of Scot- 
land. 



followers set foot upon the shores of a 
foreign land, which soon received its name 
from him, and declared to the listening 
world, "We shall remain its masters and its 
lords!" And on the spot where he is sup- 
posed to have stood July 885, stands to-day 
a noble statue erected in his honor. 



Matilda, daughter 
of Matilda of 
Scotland and her 
husband, King 
Henry First of 
England, married 
Geoffrey Plan- 
tagenet. Count of 
Anjou, who died 
1151. 



To Matilda was left by will all the posses- 
sions of her father, Henry the First, of 
England, but the throne was usurped by her 
cousin Stephen. Upon his death it reverted 
to Henry the Second, the son of Matilda and 
her husband, Geoffrey Plantagenet. Geoffrey 
was the most accomplished knight of 
his time. The surname, "Plantagenet," 
which he, as well as so many English sov- 
ereigns, bore, was derived from "planta 
genista," the Spanish broom plant. A sprig 
of this plant was worn in the cap of an 
ancestor of the house of Anjou on his pil- 
grimage to the Holy Land. 



TrrrrrTTrr^STr 




MR. DYMOKE, THE KING S CHAMPION. 



[From An Authentic History of the Coronation of His Majesty King George the Fourth.^ 

by Robert Huish, Esq., 1821.] 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 



25 



King Henry 
Second, son of 
Matilda and her 
husband, King 
Henry First of 
England, married 
Eleanor, Countess 
of Poitou and 
Aquitaine. 
1133-1189. 



Eleanor, Countess of Poitou and Aqui- 
taine, was daughter of Count Guileme. 

Besides being sovereign of her native 
dominions, she was, by hereditary right, 
chief reviewer and critic of the poets of 
Provence. At certain festivals held by her, 
called "Courts of Love," were recited all 
new "chansons" by the troubadours. She, 
with the ladies of her court, sat in judgment, 
and pronounced sentence regarding their 
literary merit. She was herself a popular 
lyric poet, and is counted among the authors 
of France. 



King John, 

" Lackland," son 

of Henry Second 

and his wife, 

Eleanor of Poitou 

and Aquitaine, 

married Countess 

Isabella of Angou- 

leme. 

I 167-1 216. 



Isabella of Angouleme was the daughter 
of Aymer de Taillifer, Count of Angouleme, 
and his wife, the Lady Alice de Courtenaye. 
Through her mother, who was a daughter of 
Peter de Courtenay, son of Louis the Sixth 
of France, she shared the blood of the Cape- 
tian line. The marriage of this princess with 
King John occurred in August, 1200, and 
was the precursor, for the royal pair, of a 
stormy life, both domestic and political. 
King John was cruel, selfish and indolent. 



26 



A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



King John. 



Isabella was beautiful and correspondingly 
vain. The barons of the realm, driven to 
desperation by the outrages perpetrated by 
the king, came together at Runnymede, June 
19, 12 1 5, and wrested from him Magna 
Charta, the declaration "by which has ever 
since been protected the personal liberty and 
the property of all free men." 



King Henry Third, 
son of John 
"Lackland" and 
his wife Isabella 
of Angouleme, 
married Princess 
Eleanor of Prov- 
ence. 
1207-1272. 



Eleanor of Provence was the daughter 
of Raymond, Count of Berenger, and his 
wife, the Lady Beatrix (daughter of Thomas, 
Count of Savoy). Eleanor of Provence was 
noted for her intellectual gifts, and was a 
writer of graceful verse. She was also cele- 
brated for her beauty, but was extravagant 
and despotic, and by no means popular with 
her subjects. She survived her husband 
many years, and was very tenderly cared for 
by her son, Edward the First. Late in life 
she took the veil at the Monastery of Am- 
bresbury. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 



27 



King Edward 
First, son of 
Henry Third and 
his wife, Princess 
Eleanor of Prov- 
ence, married 
Princess Eleanor 
of Castile. 
1239-1307. 



Princess Eleanor, snrnamed 'The Faith- 
ful." was the daughter of Ferdinand Third, 
surnamed the "Saint," King of Castile and 
Leon. Ferdinand was a wise and generously 
endowed monarch, and his children, Eleanor 
and Alphonso Tenth, inherited to a marked 
degree his intellectual qualities. Eleanor 
accompanied her royal husband, Edward 
First, on his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 
and w^hen her ladies would have dissuaded 
her, she replied, "Nothing should part those 
whom God hath joined. The way to heaven 
is as near, if not nearer, from Syria as from 
England or my native Spain." 



King Edward 
Second, son of 
Edward First and 
his wife. Princess 
Eleanor of Castile, 
married Princess 
Isabella of France. 
1284-1 327. 



Isabella of France was daughter of Philip 
le Bel, King of France, and his wife, Jane, 
Queen of Navarre. She was second cousin 
to the notorious King Charles the Bad, of 
Navarre, and much resembled him in charac- 
ter, being vain, selfish, cruel and insincere. 
The latter years of her life were spent in 
well-deserved imprisonment, and she died at 
Castle Rising, 1358. Edward the Second 
was weak and vacillating. He died early, 
and left no mark for good upon his age. 



28 



A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



King Edward 
Third, son of 
Edward Second 
and his wife, 
Princess Isabella 
of France, married 
the Lady Philippa 
of Hainault. 
1312-1377. 



Philippa of Hainault was daughter of 
William, Count of Hainault and Holland, 
and his wife, Joanna, granddaughter of 
Philip the Third of France. She is described 
by Froissart as "the most courteous, liberal, 
and noble lady that ever reigned in her time." 
When dying she made several requests of her 
royal husband, who sat by her side clasping 
her hand and weeping. At the last she said, 
'T beg that when it shall please God to call 
you hence, you will choose no other sepulchre 
than mine, and that you will lie by my side in 
the Cloisters of Westminster Abbey." 

Edward the Third was a most royal per- 
sonage, and left notable works behind him. 
He conferred lasting benefits upon his people, 
was the father of English commerce, and 
the author of one of the most popular laws 
enacted by any prince of earlier or later days. 
This was the statute which defined the 
crime and limited the cases of high treason. 
Windsor Castle was built by his order. The 
sons of Edward the Third and his wife, 
Philippa of Hainault, were Edward, the 
Black Prince ; William, who died in infancy ; 
Lionel, Duke of Clarence; John of Gaunt, 
Duke of Lancaster ; Edmund, Duke of York, 
and Thomas, Duke of Gloucester. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 



29 



Lionel, Duke of 
Clarence, son of 
Edward Third and 
his wife, Philippa 
of Hainault, 
married the Lady 
Elizabeth de 
Burgh. He died 

1368. 



Elizabeth de Burgh was daughter of 
WilHam dc Burgh, Earl of Ulster, and his 
wife, the Lady Maud Plantagenet, grand- 
daughter of Sir Patrick Chaworth. She was 
descended from Charlemagne, Henry the 
Third, and Cavbill Croodverg, the "red-hand 
King of Connaught." It would seem to be 
the latter to whom reference is made in the 
legend which relates that three vikings of 
early days went in their individual ships 
toward the island now known as Ireland. 
When approaching the shore, they agreed 
that he who first touched the land should own 
it; seeing himself outstripped in the race, 
one of the warlike contestants struck off his 
left hand and hurled it, red and bleeding, far 
ashore. Thus he first touched the land, and 
to him it belonged. Warlike clans descend- 
ing from him used the "red-hand" on their 
shields and standards. The crest of the 
Lewis family of Virginia is a "red-hand," 
and since they are lineally descended from 
this King of Connaught, this legend possibly 
explains the crest. 

Lionel, Duke of Clarence, was third son 
of Edward Third, and is said, of all the 
children of this monarch, most to have 



30 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Lionel, Duke of resembled him and the noble "Black Prince," 
Clarence. who died in 1370. The second son, William, 

also died, and thus Lionel, Duke of Clarence, 
became the elder son; but John of Gaunt, 
"Time-honored Lancaster," secured the suc- 
cession for his son, Henry the Fourth, thus 
defrauding Mortimer, the descendant of 
Lionel, Duke of Clarence. Generations later, 
Elizabeth of York, descendant of Lionel, 
Duke of Clarence, married Henry Seventh, 
descendant of John of Gaunt. So in Henry 
the Eighth the line of Edward the Third was 
doubly represented. Through this marriage 
Queen Victoria was descended from Lionel, 
Duke of Clarence, as well as from John of 
Gaunt. 



Lady Philippa Edmund Mortimer was son of Roger de 

Plantagenet, Mortimer, Earl of March, who died in 1360, 

daughter of Lionel, and his wife, Lady Joan, daughter of Sir 

Duke of Clarence, Peter Greenville, Lord of Trim Castle. He 

and his wife, \vas descended from Llewelyn ap Lowerth, 

Elizabeth de Burgh, a great prince of North Wales, who married 

married Edmund Lady Joan of England. Their daughter, the 

Mortimer, Earl of Princess Gladuse, married Ralph Mortimer, 

March. i^f^h Baron of Wigmore. Roger Mortimer, 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 



31 



Lady Philippa 
Plantagenet. 



son of Lady Philippa, and her liusband, 
Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March, was heir- 
apparent, and named by his counsin Richard 
as his successor, but the throne was usurped 
by Henry Fourth. 



Lady Elizabeth 
Mortimer, 
daughter of Lady 
PhiUppa Plantag- 
enet and her 
husband, Edmund 
Mortimer, Earl of 
March, married 
Sir Henry Percy 
(** Hotspur"), 
who was killed 
in the battle of 
Shrewsbury. 
1366-1403. 



Sir Henry Percy, born i\Iay 20, 1366, 
was knighted when only twelve years of 
age. He was the son of Henry Percy, fourth 
Lord Alnwick, first Earl of Northumberland 
(born 1334; killed in battle of Branham 
Moor, 1408) and his first wife. Lady 
Margaret Neville, daughter of Lord Neville, 
of Raby Castle, and sister of the first Earl of 
Westmoreland. The Percies held large 
estates in Normandy, prior to the entrance of 
Rollo the Dane. It is said that the head of 
the house was baptized wdth Rollo at Rouen 
by the Bishop of Rheims, 912. They came 
to England the year after the conquest, and 
William Algernourne de Percy, the first of 
the name in England, is said to have founded 
Whitby Abbey. They were a warlike race, 
and ever in the forefront of the contests of 



3^ 



A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



Lady Elizabeth 
Mortimer. 



their time. While hot of temper, they were 
loyal and brave of heart, and left a record of 
which their posterity may well be prond. 
When Henry the Fourth sent an unjust 
demand to "Hotspur" for certain prisoners, 
Shakespeare thus voices his characteristic 
reply : 

"An' if the devil come and roar for them, 
I will not send them ; I will after straight 
And tell him so; for I will ease my heart. 
Albeit I make a hazard of my head." 



"Hotspur" was slain in the battle of 
Shrewsbury, and as evidence of the victory 
achieved by the undoing of so powerful a 
foe, Henry the Fourth ordered that he be 
decapitated on the field, and that his body be 
bound upright between two mill-stones, "so 
as all men might see that he was dead." His 
head was placed on the wall of Shrewsbury, 
and his quarters distributed among different 
northern cities, but subsequently the muti- 
lated remains of the brave warrior were 
collected and delivered to his widow. 





.^€ . 



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'^l\L of W.i/tw/C;- •? 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 



33 



Henry Percy, 

Second Earl of 
Northumberland, 
son of Sir Henry 
Percy, " Hotspur," 
and his wife. Lady 
Elizabeth Morti- 
mer, married Lady 
Eleanor Neville. 

1394-1455- 



Lady Eleanor Neville was daughter of 
Ralph Neville, first Lord of Westmoreland, 
and his wife, Joan de Beaufort, daughter of 
John of Gaunt and his wife, Catherine Swyn- 
ford (the latter was widow of Sir Otis 
Swynford, and daughter of Sir Roger Roet 
of Hainault). Eleanor and her husband had 
twelve children. He was killed in the battle 
of St. Albans, 1455. 



Henry Percy, 
Third Earl of 
Northumberland, 
son of Henry 
Percy, second Earl 
of Northumber- 
land, and his wife. 
Lady Eleanor 
Neville, married 
Lady Eleanor 
Poynings. 
1421-1461. 



Lady Eleanor Poynings was daughter of 
Sir Richard Poynings, who fell at the siege 
of Orleans, 1429. She was the sole heiress 
of her grandfather, Lord Robert Poynings. 



34 



A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



Lady Margaret 
Percy, daughter of 
Henry Percy, third 
Earl of Northum- 
berland, and his 
wife. Lady Eleanor 
Poynings, married 
Sir William 
Gascoigne. 



Sir William Gascoigne was son of Sir 
William Gascoigne and his wife. Lady Joan 
de Neville; she was daughter of John de 
Neville and liis wife, Mary de Ferras, and 
granddaughter of Earl Robert de Ferras. 
She was also a descendant of John of Gaunt. 



Lady Elizabeth 
Gascoigne, 
daughter of Lady 
Margaret Percy 
and her husband. 
Sir William 
Gascoigne, married 
Sir George Talbois, 
of Kyme, in 
Lincolnshire. 



Sir George Talbois, Knight, is said to 
have descended from Ivo de Taillebois, a 
Norman follower of William the Conqueror, 
from whom he received large grants of 
land. He was also descended from Gilbert 
de Umfraville, Malcolm, Earl of x'\ngus, the 
Earl of Buchan and Gilbert Barraden. He 
was the son of Sir Robert Talbois and grand- 
son of Sir William Talbois, who married 
Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Bonville, 1438, 
and was knighted by Henry the Sixth in 
1460 for distinguished services in the battle 
of St. Albans. 

Sir George Talbois was also the father of 
Baron Gilbert Talbois, who died during the 
reign of Queen Elizabeth without issue, when 
the barony became extinct. His sister, Lady 
Anne Dymoke, was one of his heirs. 




DYMOKE. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 



35 



Lady Anne Talbois, 
daughter of Eliza- 
beth Gascoigne 
and her husband, 
Sir George Talbois, 
married Sir 
Edward Dymoke, 
Hereditary Cham- 
pion of England. 
He died i 566. 



Lady Aunt was fifth daughter of Sir 
George Talbois and his wife, Ehzabeth Gas- 
coigne. The arms borne l)y her house were 
(juartered with those of Barraden, Fitzwith 
and Umfraville. 

Sir Edward Dymoke was son and heir of 
Robert Dymoke of Scrivelsby Court, Lin- 
cohishire, and his wife, Lady Anne Sparrow. 
He was a direct descendant of King Edward 
the First and his second wife. Princess Mar- 
garet, daughter of Phihp le Hardi of France, 
through their son, Thomas Plantagenet of 
Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, wdio w^edded 
Lady x^lice Halys ; also through the Princess 
Joan de Acres, who wedded Gilbert, called 
the "Red Earl," of Clare. He was also 
related to the noble lines of de Mowbray, de 
Audley, Segrave and Stafford. His wife, 
Lady Anne Talbois, was descended from two 
sons of Edward the Third — Lionel, Duke of 
Clarence, and John, Duke of Lancaster. 

Sir Edward Dymoke numbered amongst 
his ancestors Robert Marmyum, Lord of 
Castle Fontenaye in Normandy, and of Tam- 
worth and Scrivelsby Court in England. 
Lord Robert Marmyum was descended from 
Rollo the Dane, and w^as Hereditary Cham- 



26 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Lady Anne Talbois. pion to his kinsman, William, Duke of 

Normandy, by whose side he fought upon 
the field of Hastings. 

When the battle was over, William, now 
"The Conqueror," gathered his retainers 
about him upon the eminence, which had 
been marked by the most desperate fighting, 
and doubtless Robert de Marmyum, his 
Champion, held the nearest place to the royal 
person. It was on this night, with the dead 
and dying piled in great heaps about the 
Standard, that William declared his intention 
cf building upon the bloody field a great 
Battle Abbey. Lord Marmyum appeared as 
Champion of England at the double corona- 
tion of William and Matilda, April, 1068, at 
Winchester. The challenge upon this occa- 
sion was delivered in the following words : 
*Tf any person deny that our most gracious 
sovereigns. Lord William and his spouse 
Matilda, are King and Queen of England 
he is a false-hearted traitor and a liar, and 
here I, as Champion, do challenge him to 
single combat." 

Thus it appears that the august ofiice of 
Royal or Hereditary Champion to the King 
was in England a continuation of the office 









^S^ 




TAM WORTH 
Hie per Willielmum Conquestoreni Ri>bertus Marmion Domiiius Castelli Efficitur. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 37 

Lady Anne Talbois. as already existing in the Dukedom of Nor- 
mandy. 

When King- William rewarded his 
Norman followers, a number of estates were 
given to this Robert de Marmyum. Among 
them was Tamworth. a parliamentary and 
municipal borough, partly in Stafford, partly 
in Warwickshire. Of this estate Sir William 
Dugdale wrote : 

"This Castle, being in the hands of King 
William, after his Conquest, was by him 
given unto Robert Marmion, as is verified by 
an ancient window of this church, where the 
same King, being depicted in his Robes of 
State and Crowned, stretcheth forth his hand 
to him, holding a Charter therein, near the 
Gate of a Faire Castle, an exact representa- 
tion whereof I have in Page 822 exhibited." 

Scrivelsby Court, a baronial fief, was 
conferred upon Robert Alarmyon according 
to the then existing legal forms, with a 
special condition annexed to the tenure, that 
it should be held by the particular service of 
himself, and the heirs of the fee, performing 
the office of Champion to every sovereign of 
England. The Dymokes inlierited Scriv- 
elsby Court, or Manor, from this Sir Robert 



38 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Lady Anne Talbois. IMarmynn, and it has been owned by them 

tlirough all the succeeding centuries. It is 
situated in the most picturesque portion of 
Mid-Lincolnshire, and is one of the most 
unique establishments in England. 

The buildings are fronted by a park, the 
entrance to which is marked by a high arch 
of grey stone, overgrown with ivy. Stand- 
ing upon the arch, in bold relief, is the figure 
of a lion, life-size. The lion is one of the 
crests of the Dymokes, and their "arms" 
show two "lions passant" upon a black field, 
with the motto "Pro Rege Dimico." The 
lion was used from early times as the royal 
symbol of England, Normandy and Scotland, 
and doubtless became the property of the 
Dymokes as Champions of the Crown. 

Scrivelsby Chapel is a small quaint build- 
ing, some portions of which are at least five 
hundred years old. Some one describing it a 
number of years ago, said, "Among the 
tombs is that of Sir Robert Dymoke, Cham- 
pion of Richard Third, Henry Seventh and 
Eighth. On the top of the tomb is a plate of 
brass on which his figure is sculptured in full 
armour in recumbent posture, with his hel- 
met under his head, and a lion at his feet. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 39 

Lady Anne Talbois. Above the figure is a shield containing the 

family arms, and beneath, the following 
inscription : 'Here liethe the Body of Sir 
Robert Dymoke of Scrivelsby, Knight and 
Baronet, who departed out of this present 
lyfe the XX day of Apryle in ye yere of our 
Lord God MDLXV upon whose sowle 
Almighte god have m ci. Amen.' " 

By prescriptive right the perquisites of 
the Champion were "one of the King's best 
coursiers, the second best in the royal stables, 
with saddle, harness and trappings of cloth 
of gold : one of the King's best suits of 
armour, with cases of cloth of gold; and all 
other things belonging to the King's body 
when he goes into mortal combat." The 
golden cup and its cover, from which the 
King and the Champion drank each other's 
health, many yards of crimson satin, and 
other smaller articles were also his. The 
"arms" provided for Sir Charles Dymoke, 
royal Champion at the coronation of James 
the Second, 1685, are carefully enumerated 
by historians. They were "a complete suit of 
white armour, a pair of gauntlets, a sword 
and a hanger, a case of rich pistols, an oval 
shield with the Champion's arms painted on 



40 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Lady Anne Talbois. it, and a gilded lance fringed about the 

handles, also a field saddle of crimson velv^et 
with breast-plate and other caparisons for 
the horse, richly laden with gold and silver, 
a plume of red, white and blue feathers con- 
sisting of eighteen falls and a heron's top. 
Another plume for the horse's head and 
trumpet banners, with the Champion's own 
arms depicted on them." 

The last official appearance of the Cham- 
pion was at the coronation of George the 
Fourth ; for the grand banquet, with this 
picturesque feature, was dispensed with at 
the coronation of King William, and also at 
that of Oueen Victoria, though several later 
Dymokes have borne the title of "The Hon- 
orable the Queen's Champion." Francis 
Seaman Dymoke, the present owner of 
Scrivelsby, the ancestral estate, is nineteenth 
in the line of Royal Champions. His 
youthful son, Frank Dymoke, was born in 
the same year as Prince Edward of York, 
grandson of the present King, Edward the 
Seventh. 

Dating, as this office does, from a period 
prior to the Conquest, and descending, 
through all succeeding centuries, hereditary 




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CORONATU^N OF GI-:OKGE IV. IN WESTMINSTKK HALL. 
THE champion's CH AI.LKNGE. 

[From a Coiiteinv>oniry Engravmi; in tlic Ootticmait's Ma_i;<izine.\ 











SOUTH VIEW OF WESTMINSTER HALL, 
Representing the manner of serving up the first course at the Coronation Banquet. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 



41 



Lady Anne Talbois. in one family, it appeals to the present age 

as the latest, most perfect, and most pictur- 
esque survival of the age of romance and 
chivalry. The influence of chivalry was to 
deedsof heroism and high emprise; it marked 
the transition period from the feudalism of 
violence to the feudalism of culture. It made 
the Crusades possible, and brought into exist- 
ence a literature which claims the chronicles 
of Froissart and the songs and stories of 
medieval bards. It created legends through 
v^^hich the universal heart of the world found 
expression, and in which self-sacrifice as a 
potent factor in life stood arrayed against 
sordid and selfish considerations. 

In the office of King's Champion was 
focused, to a certain extent, the multiform 
influences of chivalry, and through its pic- 
turesque ceremonies was exercised a force 
which faintly reaches even this utilitarian 
age of "sophisters, economists and calcula- 
tors." This influence or force may be traced 
in some of the most delightful literature of 
England. In Ivanhoc there are many allu- 
sions which suggest that the knightly service 
of the Champion and the ancient "wager of 
battel," for which he stood, had aided in 



42 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Lady Anne Talbois. formulating and directing the author's 

thought. In RcJgauuflct the champion ap- 
pears in person. In Mannion, Lord Robert 
Marmyun.it would seem, was, to some extent 
at least, the original of the picture drawn, 
and his home. Tamworth Castle, is fre- 
quently mentioned. 

"Marmion. whose steady heart and eye 
Ne'er changed in worst extremity, 
Marmion, whose soul could scantly brook 
E'en from his King a haughty look ; 
Whose accent of command controlled 
In camps, the boldest of the bold." 

There can be no reasonable doubt that 
Scrivelsby, with its unique traditions, exerted 
a powerful influence over the imagination of 
Lord Tennyson. There was here for the 
super-sensitive consciousness of the poet an 
intangible, pervasive, intoxicating, psychic 
influence through which the scenes of the 
past were in\-uked, and through which the 
principles which had given it existence were 
conjured up as a force in his own life. Som- 
ersby, the childhood home of the Laureate, 
was only seven miles from Scrivelsby Manor. 
It is said that the stately park of the latter, 
its wide-stretching wolds and meadows, were 




TAMWOKTH CASTl.K. 



Taken from the foot of " Lady Bridge," and drawn on tlic spot by Mr. Williams, 

an eminent portrait painter, in the year 1780. 

[Cfittlfiitaii's Jfa^uizi^u- and Historical C/ironicl,:'\ 




THE LION GATEWAY, SCRIVELSBY PARK. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 



43 



Lady Anne Talbois. frequently the cliosen scenes of his rambles, 

and in tlie Manor House were the rare old 
relics of armour and of knightly service upon 
which h.e so deligiited to dwell. Here lived 
the descendants of King Alfred and the 
doughty Norman warriors, and many times 
must he have passed through the great Lion 
Gateway, which guarded the entrance to the 
park, and gazed upon the royal beast which 
stood erect upon its arch of solid masonry. 
The Dymokes of Scrivelsby v;ere descended 
from Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, and in 
Lady Clara Vcre dc Vere the poet says : 

"Nor would I break for your sweet sake, 
A heart that dotes on truer charms, 
A simple maiden in her flower 
Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms. 

"You sought to prove how I could love, 
And my disdain is your reply. 
The lion on your old stone gates 
Is not more cold to you than I. 

"Howe"er it Ijcv it seems to me, 
'Tis only noble to be good, 
Kind hearts are more than coronets, 
And simple faith than Norman blood." 

The references here to the luany coats-of- 
arms shown at Scrivelsby, the lion on "the 



44 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Lady Anne Talbois. old stone gates," the long descent and Nor- 
man blood, are sm^ely most suggestive. 

In the chapel of Scrivelsby there is a 
memorial figure, a knight cross-legged ; in 
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After are the 
lines : 



'"Yonder in that chapel, slowly sinking now into the 

ground. 
Lies the warrior, my forefather, with his feet upon 

the hound. 

"Crossed, for once he sailed the sea to crush the 

Moslem in his pride : 
Dead the warrior, dead his glory, dead the cause in 

which he died. 



'Here is Locksley Hall, my grandson, here the Lion- 
guarded gate. 



"There is one old Hostel left us where they swing 

the Locksley shield, 
Till the peasant cow shall butt the 'Lion passant' 

from his field." 



The Dymoke shield bears "two lions pas- 
sant." In the park at Scrivelsby is a leaden 
life-size figure of a cow, which has been there 
many years ; doubtless it suggested the lines 
above. 





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BRASS TO LIONEL DVMOKE IN HORNCASTLE CHURCH 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 45 

Lady Anne Talbois. In connection with the interesting htera- 

ture bearing upon this subject should be 
mentioned autograph letters from sovereigns 
of England to the various Champions. 
Among these is one from Henry the Eighth 
to Sir Robert Dymoke, dated 1513, and one 
from Queen Mary to Sir Edward. 

There are also many curious old ballads, 
such as the one subjoined — 

"The Norman Barons Marmyon 

At Norman Court held high degree ; 
Brave Knights and Champions, every one, 
To him who vvone brave Scrivelsby. 

"The Lincohi lands the Conqueror gave, 
That England's glove they should convey, 
To knight renowned among the brave, 
The Baron bold of Fontenaye. 

"The royal grant from sire to son, 
Devolved direct in capite, 
Until deceased Phil. Marmyon, 
When rose fair Joan of Scrivelsby. 

"And ever since when England's kings 
Are diademed — no matter where — 
The Champion Dymoke boldly flings 
His glove, should treason venture there. 

"Then bravely cry with Dymoke bold. 
Long may the king triumphant reign, 
And when fair hands the sceptre hold. 
More bravely still — long live the Queen." 



46 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Lady Anne Talbois. Among the most illustrious Champions 

were Philip Marmion, who served in the 
third Crusade, Sir Thomas Dymoke,who was 
beheaded, and Sir Robert Dymoke, who died 
in defence of his religion. This Sir Robert 
was one of the ten children of Sir Edward 
Dymoke, Champion for Edward the Sixth 
and Queens Mary and Elizabeth. He suc- 
ceeded to the estates and titles, married the 
daughter of Edward Clinton, Earl of Lin- 
coln, and was a conspicuous figure in the 
social life of his day. He was a brother of 
the Frances Dymoke (who married Thomas 
Windebank) whose descendant, George 
Reade, settled in Virginia. 

The Dymokes had lieen staunch adher- 
ents of the Church of Rome, and during the 
religious disturbances which characterized 
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Robert 
stood firm and unflinching in defense of the 
faith in which he was born. 

Queen Elizabeth, following the policy 
which led her to maintain in one county a 
bishop who adhered to Rome, in another one 
of pronounced Puritanical tendencies, had 
appointed for Lincoln one of the latter, and 
Sir Robert was ordered to appear before him 




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•.--ii! 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 47 

Lady Anne Talbois. and answer charges that he maintained a 

Romish priest at Scrivelsby, and had mass 
celebrated in the chapel. Sir Robert was too 
ill to obey the summons, so the prelate came 
to him. Threats, promises, persuasions were 
of no avail. The old knight was not called to 
serve as Champion for an earthly sovereign, 
but he filled that office nobly in discharging 
his duty to a heavenly; and though ill and 
helpless, would not retract nor recant. As a 
result, he was forcil)ly taken from his bed 
and his manor house, carried to Lincoln 
prison and incarcerated. Here, from expo- 
sure and privation, he died the death of a 
hero, a champion for his faith to the last, 
wherefore he is called the "Martyr Cham- 
pion." 

"The greatest gift the hero leaves his race 
Is to have been a hero." 

To Sir Edward Dymoke and his wife, the 
Lady y\nne Talbois. were Ijorn eleven chil- 
dren : Robert, Charles, Edwaid; Elizabeth, 
married to Henry Ayscough; ALargarct, to 
Lord Eure; Erances, to Sir Thomas W'indc- 
bank; Susan, to Sir Thomas Lambert; 
Donjthy, Sarah, Ihadget and Arthur. 



48 



A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



Lady Anne Talbois. 



The last four names are not found in all 
the records, but Arthur is supposed to have 
been the father of Edward, who migrated to 
America, and was the father of Thomas 
Dymoke, who died at Barnstaple, Massachu- 
setts, 1658. This Thomas Dymoke married 
Ann Hammond. They had several children, 
whose descendants are now living in different 
parts of America. 



Frances, daughter 
of Sir Edward 
Dymoke and his 
wife, Lady Anne 
Talbois, married 
Sir Thomas 
Windebank, 
August 20, I 566. 

Mildred Winde- 
bank, daughter of 
Frances Dymoke 
and her husband. 
Sir Thomas 
Windebank, mar- 
ried Robert Reade. 



Sir Thomas Windebank, who died 1607, 
was son of Sir Richard Windebank of 
Haines Hall, Berkshire, and his wife, Marga- 
ret (daughter of Griffith ap Henry). He 
was clerk of the signet to Queen Elizabeth 
and her successor. King James. 



Robert Reade was son of Andrew Reade, 

who died 1623, and his wife, Cooke, 

of Kent. Their home was the Manor of 
Linkenholt, Hampshire, England. 



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49 



George Reade, son 
of Mildred 
Windebank and 
her husband, 
Robert Reade, 
married Elizabeth 
Martian. 
1600-1671. 



Elizabeth Martian was daugliter of 
Captain Nicholas Martian, of York County, 
\ n-ginia, whose home occupied the present 
site of Yorktown. He was of French l)irth, 
but a naturalized citizen of England, from 
whence he came to Virginia about 162 1, 
with a wife and two children. Pie married a 
second time, some time after 1625, Jane, 
widow of Lieutenant Berkely, and a third 
time, about 1645, Isabella Beech. He was 
Justice of York, Burgess for York and 
Kiskyache, and held other ofifices (see Some 
Notable Families of America, by Annah 
Robinson Watson). His will, dated March 
I, 1656, recorded in York County April 24, 
1657, divided his estate between his dauo-h- 
ters, Elizabeth, wife of Colonel Georo-e 
Reade; Mary, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel 
John Scasbrook, and Sarah, wife of Captain 
William Fuller, Governor of Maryland. 

Colonel George Reade came to America 
in 1637. He was Secretary to the Colony of 
Virginia in 1640, Burgess, member of Ilis 
Majesty's Council. Colonel of Militia, 
(whence his title), and held other important 
oflices. (For information, see Some Notable 
Families of America.) 



so A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Col. George Reade. To Colonel George Reade and his wife, 

Elizabeth Martian, were born twelve chil- 
dren : 

1. Mildred Reade, who married Colonel 
Augustine Warner. 

2. George Reade, died without issue. 

3. Robert Reade, married Mary Lilly, 
daughter of John Lilly, and granddaughter 
of John Lilly and his wife, Dorothy Wade 
(daughter of Armiger Wade and his wife, 
the heiress of Edward Malson, or Moulson, 
of York County). Margaret Reade, daugh- 
ter of Robert Reade and his wife, Mary Lilly, 
married Thomas Nelson. They were grand- 
parents of General Thomas Nelson. Samuel 
Reade, son of Robert and his wife, Mary 
Lilly, had a daughter, Frances, who married 
Anthony Robinson, High Sheriff for York 
County. 

4. Francis Reade, married, first, Jane 
Chisman, and had Mary Reade (who mar- 
ried Edward Davis, of King and Queen 
County), and Elizabeth Reade, who married 
Paul Watlington. Francis Reade married, 

second, Anne , and had George, Anne 

and Benjamin. 

5. Benjamin Reade, married Lucy , 
















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UYMOKK. 



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Col. George Reade. and had Gwynn Reade, who married 

Dorothy . 

6. Thomas Reade, married Lucy Gwynn, 
daughter of Edmund Gwynn, of Gloucester 
County. They had eleven children : ( i ) 
Thomas, who died without issue. (2) Rev. 
John Reade, whose only daughter, Sarah, 
married John Rootes. (3) Lucy, wdio mar- 
ried John Dixon, of Bristol. (4) Mildred, 
who married Major Philip Rootes. (5) 
Mary, who married Mordecai Throckmor- 
ton. (6) Believed to be Colonel Clement 
Read, of Charlotte. Among the descendants 
of Colonel George Reade it is probable that 
none other was more largely dowered with 
the characteristics which for a thousand 
years had given his race preeminence than 



Col. Clement Read, 

who was born January t, 1707. He was 
educated at William and Mary College; 
later was qualified as attorney in Goochland, 
Albemarle, and Brunswick Counties; was 
a vestryman in the churches of Brunswick 
and Lunenburg, trustee of William and 



51 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Col. George Reade. Mary College, 1729; first clerk of Lunen- 
burg, 1746; was president of the Council, 
and upon the departure of Governor Gooch 
for England, 1749. acted as governor of the 
colony. 

In 1730, he married Mary Hill, only 
daughter of William Hill, believed to have 
been an officer of the British navy, and de- 
scendant of the Marquis of Downshire and 
his wife, Priscilla, daughter of Edmund 
Jenings, Governor of Virginia. 

The home of Colonel Clement Read and 
his wife, Mary Hill, was "Bushy Forest," 
near Charlotte Court-house, now Smithville. 
It was doubtless counted among the notable 
homesteads in those days, and a centre for 
both social and political activities, for Col- 
onel Clement Read was one of the most 
influential men of his section, and his wife, a 
stately dame, who, like himself, was of noble 
lineage. Hundreds of slaves waited to do 
their bidding on this and other handsome 
estates, and the coach and four in which the 
mistress of the mansion took her pleasure 
drives or made her journeys was an object to 
be gazed upon with envy by less for- 
tunate folk. The children of this marriage 
were : 



ALFRED THE GREAT. S3 

Col. George Reade. i. Colonel Clement Read, Jr., who mar- 

ried Mary Nash, 

2. Colonel Isaac Read, who married 
Sarah Embry. 

3. Colonel Thomas Read, who married 
Elizabeth Nash. 

4. Major Edmund Read, who married, 
first, Miss Lewis; second, Paulina Cabell, 
daughter of Colonel William Cabell. 

5. Capt Jonathan Read, who married 
Jane Lewis. 

6. Mary Read, who married Thomas 
Nash. Their daughter, Ann Owen Nash, 
married Rev. John Cameron, of Petersburg, 
Virginia. 

7. Margaret Read, who married Judge 
Paul Carrington ; their eldest daughter, 
Mary, married Colonel S. W. Venable. 
Another daughter, Anne, married Colonel 
William Cabell, Jr. 

8. Anne Read, who married, first, Wil- 
liam Jameson ; second, Richard Elliott. 

Colonel Clement Read, Jr., was born 
1736, and educated at William and Mary 
College; he read law under his father, and 
was appointed first clerk of Charlotte County. 
He married, in 1757, Mary Nash, daughter 



54 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Col. George Reade. of Judge John Nash, of Templeton Manor 

(who was appointed colonel and chairman 
of the Committee of Safety from Prince 
Edward County). Their children were 
Clement, who served as lieutenant in the 
Revolution ; John Nash, Thomas, Harrison 
and Mary. 

The second son of this marriage. Captain 
John Nash Read, joined the Continental 
Army, under General Greene, at the age of 
eighteen, and served at Guilford Court- 
house, Cowpens, and in other notable en- 
gagements. 

He was married three times : first to 
Elizabeth Julia Spencer, a first cousin of 
Thomas Jefferson. Their children were Dr. 
Clement, Dr. John Harris, Major Sion 
Spencer, Martin, Dr. Thomas Hill, and seven 
daughters. 

The second wife was Elizabeth Fisher 
Nash. The children of this union were 
James Allen and Francis Nash. 

The third wife was Mary Barksdale. 
The children of this union were William 
Harrison, Nathaniel Barksdale, Edmund 
Randolph, Peter, and six daughters. 

Captain John Nash Read moved, in 1806, 



ALFRED THE GREAT. S5 

Col. George Reade. froni Charlotte County, Virginia, to Ruther- 
ford County, Tennessee; here he died in 
January, 1826. 

Major Sion Spencer Read, a son of the 
first marriage of Captain John Nash Read, 
served in the war of 181 2 — first with Coffee's 
Regiment of Cavalry, and afterwards witli 
Williamson's Regiment of mounted gunmen. 

In 1819 he married Hardenia Jefferson 
Spencer, of Charlotte County, Virginia. 
Their children were Lycurgus, Dr. John 
Thomas, George Granville, Edwin Cole, Dr. 
Corin, Charles William, and two daughters. 

In October. 1839, Major Sion Spencer 
Read moved to McMinnville, Tennessee. 

Dr. John Thomas Read, son of Sion 
Spencer Read and his wife, Hardenia Jeffer- 
son Spencer, graduated from Jefferson 
Medical College, Philadelphia, in March, 
1853. Prior to his studies here he had served 
in the Mexican ^\•ar. ami in the civil war he 
served with the Sixteenth Tennessee Regi- 
ment as surgeon, having the rank of major. 

He married Laurena Caroline Rankin, 
daughter of David Rankin, of Sequatchie 
Valley, Tennessee. Their children were ( r) 
Laura B., who married Samuel McCall, and 



56 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Col. Georo-e Reade. l^^*^^ three sons. One of these, Wright Mc- 

Call, is now living; the other two died in 
infancy. (2) Mary H.. who married William 
W. Frater, and liad four daughters. (3) 
Harriet S., who married Rev. H. H. Sneed, 
and had eight children. (4) Carrie R., who 
married Letcher Pickens, and had two sons, 
Henry Berlin and John Read. (5) Samuel 
Roberson Read, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, 
who married Lizzie Hamilton, daughter of 
Dr. P. D. Sims, also of Chattanooga. They 
had four children — Alary Hill, Elizabeth 
Nash, Margaret and jMartin Sims. 

Thomas Reade and his wife, Lucy 
Gwynne, had five other children, whose 
names are not known. Lucy Gwynne was 
granddaughter of Colonel William Bernard, 
a great-great-great-grandson of Lady Mar- 
garet le Scrope, who was great-great-great- 
great-great-granddaughter of Princess Joan 
de Acres and her husband, Gilbert de Clare. 
Among the great-grandchildren of Thomas 
Reade and Lucy Gwynne was Frances 
Throckmorton, who married General Wil- 
liam Madison. They were great-great- 
grandparents of Susie Ashton Chapman 
Perkins. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 



57 



Col. George Reade. 



7. Elizabeth Reade, seventh child of 
Colonel George Reade and Elizabeth .Mar- 
tian, married Captain Thomas Chisman, of 
York County, Virginia. Their son, John 
Chisman, married Eleanor Howard. A 
daughter of this marriage, Diana, married 
James Goodwin, 

The names of the other five children of 
Colonel George Reade, and his wife, Eliza- 
beth Martian, are not known. 



Mildred Reade, 
daughter of Col. 
George Reade and 
his wife, Elizabeth 
Martian, married 
Col. Augustine 
Warner, of 
"Warner Hall," 
Gloucester County, 
Virginia. He was 
born October 20, 
1643 ; died June 
10, 168 I. 



Colonel Augustine Warner was son of 
Captain Augustine Warner (who came to 
America prior to 1630) and his wife, Mary 

. He was educated at the "Merchant 

Tailors" School, London, and was later Bur- 
gess, Speaker of the House of Burgesses, 
Member of the Council, and Colonel of 
Militia. (For dates, see Sonic Notable 
faiiiilics of America.) 

To Colonel Augustine Warner and liis 
wife, Mildred Reade, were born Mildred, 
who married Laurence Washington (they 
were grandparents of George Washington). 
(2) Robert, who died witlmnt issue. (3) 



58 



A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



Mildred Reade. 



George, who died without issue. (4) Mary, 
who married John Smith, of Purton, and 
had Augustine Smith, who married Sarah 
Carver. Their daughter, Sarah Smith, mar- 
ried Robert Throckmorton, and had a son, 
Warner Throckmorton, who married JuHa 
Langborne. Their daughter, Mary Throck- 
morton, married Dr. Wihiam Tahaferro; 
they were grandparents of Wilham B. TaHa- 
ferro. (5) EUzabeth, who married Cokjnel 
John Lewis. 



Elizabeth Warner, 
daughter of 
Mildred Reade 
and her husband, 
Col. Augustine 
Warner, married 
Col. John Lewis. 
She was born 
November 24, 
1672; died 
1719 or 1720. 



Colonel John Lewis was the son of Major 

John Lewis and his wife. Isabella . 

(Major John Lewis owned estates in New 
Kent and Gloucester Counties, and in 1680 
was Captain of Horse in the Militia of the 
former; he was also one of its justices. In 
1685 he was a major in the foot service.) 

Colonel John Lewis was born November 
30, 1669; died November 14, 1725. He 
was a Member of the Council, 171 5. 

To him and his wife, Elizabeth Warner, 
were born fourteen children; the names of 
only eight of these have been preserved : 



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59 



Elizabeth Warner. Catharine, bom ; baptized Novem- 

ber, 1702. 

Elizabeth, born ; baptized Novem- 
ber, 1702. 

John, born ; baptized November, 

1702 ; married Frances Fielding, daughter of 
Henry Fielding, of King and Queen County. 

Charles (called Colonel Charles of "The 
Byrd"), born October 13, 1690; died 1779; 
married, 17 17, Mary, daughter of John 
Howell, gentleman. 

Robert (called Colonel Robert of "Bel- 

voir"), born ; baptized May 4, 1702; 

married Jane, daughter of Nicholas Meri- 
wether and his wife, Elizabeth Crafford. 

Elizabeth, born ; baptized March 

7, 1706. 

Isabella, born ; baptized December 

18, 1707; married Dr. Thomas Clayton. July 
14, 1720; had one child, who died young. 

Anne, born ; baptized February 14, 

1712. 



6o A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



Colonel Charles Lewis, 

Of ''The Byrd." 

Colonel Charles Lewis, son of Colonel 
John Lewis and his wife, Elizabeth Warner, 
was born October, 1696, and died in 1779. 
He married, in 17 17, Mary Howell, daughter 
of John Howell, gentleman. 

The home of Colonel Charles Lewis was 
the "Byrd Plantation," in Goochland County, 
which took its name from the limpid stream, 
"The Byrd," which flowed through its pro- 
ductive acres ; but besides this, he had other 
and very valuable estates with many slaves 
and large herds of cattle. He was an officer 
in the French and Indian wars, a member of 
the Council, and a man of position and 
influence in his community. The children 
of Charles Lewis and his wife, Mary Howell, 
were: 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 6i 

1. John, who married Jane Meriwether, 
daughter of Colonel Robert Lewis and his 
wife, Jane Meriwether. 

2. Charles, who married Mary, daughter 
of Isham Randolph. 

3. Elizabeth, who married William Ken- 
non, of Chesterfield County. 

4. James, who married Isabella, or Eliza- 
beth, surname thought to have been Taylor. 

5. Howell, born September 13, 1731, 
died about 18 14, married Isabella Willis, 
daughter of Colonel Henry Willis, the 
founder of Fredericksburg. 

6. Ann, who married Edmund Taylor. 

7. Robert, who married Jane Woodson, 
daughter of Tucker Woodson. 

8. Frances, who married Robert Lewis, 
of Louisa County, son of Colonel Robert 
Lewis, of "Belvoir," and his wife, Jane 
Meriwether. 

"The Byrd Plantation" became one of 
the notable colonial estates, and the life led 
by its family-circle was generous, hospitable, 
and far-reaching in its social influence. The 
children and grandchildren were allied by 
marriage to the leading families of the State, 
and wielded a strong power in both political 



62 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



and social circles. The will of Colonel 
Charles Lewis was probated in 1779, and is 
a most interesting document on account of 
the side-lights which it throws upon the life 
of that day, as well as upon his family rela- 
tions. 

He bequeaths to his "beloved wife, Mary 
Lewis," his whole estate, both real and 
personal, for her natural life. She is also 
named as executrix without bond. The will 
alludes to several different estates, to slaves 
and cattle, and mentions eight children by 
name. Many interesting heir-looms have 
come down to his descendants, the rarest of 
china and glass, and the quaintest of silver, 
all of which was doubtless brought in those 
early days from the mother country. 

Howell Lewis, son of Colonel Charles 
Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his wife, Mary 
Howell, married Isabella Willis. They 
moved to Granville County, North Carolina, 
and established the home "Elmwood," which 
became a centre for one of the most cultured 
and patrician circles of the State. He served 
as major in the Revolution, and later was a 
member of the State Senate. His will was 
proved at the February court of Granville 



ALFRED THE GREAT. e^ 

County, 1814. His wife survived him, and 
died in her eightieth year. Their children 
were : 

1. Charles. 

2. Willis. 

3. Isabella, married Jeffries. 

4. Anne, married Morton. 

5. Frances, married Bugg. 

6. Jane, married David Hinton, of "The 
Oaks," Wake County, North Carolina, where 
still resides their great-granddaughter, Mary 
Milliard Hinton. 

7. Mildred, married John Cobb, first of 
Goochland County, Virginia, and then of 
Georgia. Their children were Howell Cobb 
(who was Secretary of the Treasury under 
Buchanan), Mary Willis Cobb, Susannah 
Cobb, John Addison Cobb and Mildred Cobb. 

8. Mary, married Kennon. 

9. Elizabeth, married William Ridley, of 
Granville County, North Carolina. 

10. Howell, born April 2, 1759; married, 
in 1780, Betsy Coleman, of Goochland 
County, Virginia, daughter of Robert Cole- 
man. 



64 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



Elizabeth Lewis married William Ridley. 
Their daughter, Mary Ridley, married Col- 
onel Nathaniel Robards, of Granville County, 
North Carolina. He was descended from 
John Robards, who came from Wales in 
1 710, and settled in Goochland County, Va. 
His son, William, served on the Committee 
of Safety in 1776, and had at least six sons 
and two sons-in-law in the Colonial Army; 
one of the six sons, James, married Mary, 
daughter of Major Nathaniel Massie, and 
was father of Colonel Nathaniel Robards. 
who married Mary Ridley. 

The Robards came of a race richly 
endowed with both mental and physical gifts. 
They were tall, graceful in bearing, courtly 
in demeanor, and while largely engaged in 
planting, were also devoted to intellectual 
pursuits. Colonel Nathaniel Robards lost 
by fire a rare collection of books and curios, 
among which were family records of great 
value inscribed upon vellum. To him and 
his wife, Mary Ridley, were born eleven 
children — 

I. William H. Robards, born October i, 
1806; died March 6, 1862. He was a man 
whose many gifts, hereditary and acquired, 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 65 

won a broad recognition, and at his home, 
"Bendemeer," assembled many who were 
distinguished in the highest circles. He 
served in the Confederate army as brigadier- 
general. His wife was Anne Eliza Toole, a 
woman of wealth, and conspicuous for her 
great beauty and social graces. Their 
daughter, Mrs. Lucius H. Terry, nee Mary 
E. Robards. resides at New Orleans, Louis- 
iana. She is a member of the Colonial 
Dames of America. 

2. Eliza Robards, married Colonel James 
Wilkes ; left three children. One of these is 
Dr. James Howell Wilkes, of Columbia, 
Tennessee. 

3. Mary Ann Robards, married David 
Kerns ; left three children. One of these is 
C. W. Kerns, of Gilmer, Texas. 

4. Howell Ridley Robards was a man of 
unusual mental ability, a physician of highest 
reputation, and assistant surgeon in the 
Mexican war. He married Margaret E. 
Camp ; left three children ; one of these is 
W. C. Robards, of San Antonio, Texas. 

5. Willis Lewis Robards (colonel in the 

Confederate Army), married Miss • 

Rude; left three children. 



66 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



6. James Ridley Robards, assistant sur- 
geon in Mexican war; died of wounds 
received in battle. 

7. Caroline Virginia Robards, died 
young. 

8. Francis Hawkes Robards, went to 
California during the gold fever; supposed 
to have died young. 

9. Charles Lewis Robards, bom April 
II, 1827; died November 22, 1870. He 
served in the civil war as aide-de-camp on the 
staff of General Henry E. McCulloch, and 
married Julia Tabitha White, of Shreveport, 
Louisiana, who is descended from the fami- 
lies of Donelson, Owen, and Lowe, of Vir- 
ginia, and Purnell, of Maryland. This Lowe 
family is said to be descended from John 
Lowe, the renowned Bishop of Rochester. 
Julia White is also descended from Abraham 
Sublette and his wife, Susannah Dupuy, 
French Huguenots. Susannah was sister to 
Bartholomev^ Dupuy, of the Body Guard of 
Louis XIV., who came to America in 1700. 
Charles Lewis Robards and his wife, Julia 
T. White, had one child, Mattie Robards, 
who married August Mayer, civil engineer 
and planter, now living in Shreveport, 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 67 

Louisiana. Mrs. Mayer is a member of the 
Colonial Dames of America. 

10. Julia Constance Robards, died 
young. 

11. John Ridley Robards, died young. 



Among the families mentioned in this 
sketch none is more worthy of attention than 
that of Ridley. The name, variously spelled, 
is found in the earliest records, and always 
as belonging to those of high estate and 
position. 

An English authority claims that in 
Scandinavia it was derived in primitive times 
from a place called "Rugdal," that is, "Rye- 
dale," the Valley of Rye. From Scandinavia 
it would seem that some bearing the name 
went to France, for here Walgrinus Ridel 
was Earl of Angouleme and Piragord prob- 
ably as early as 885. He was kinsman to 
Charles le Bald, King of France, and mar- 
ried Rosalind, daughter of the Duke of Aqui- 
taine. Their descendant in the eighth gene- 
ration is said to have been Galfridus Ridel, 
who followed William the Conqueror to 



68 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



England. His oldest son, Galfridus Ridel, 
second, became Lord Justiciary of all Eng- 
land during the reign of Henry the First. 
He married Geva, daughter of the Earl of 
Chester, the nephew of William the Con- 
queror. From the time of the Norman 
Conquest the family held landed estates in 
England, and the name may be found on the 
Battle Abbey Roll and Dooms-day Book. 
Ridley Hall, Cheshire, as belonging to Bryon 
Ridley, was known in 1157. 

It is claimed that the most ancient charter 
in existence issued by a king to a layman 
bears date 1125, and was bestowed by King 
David of Scotland upon a member of this 
family, Geoffery Ridale. Grey, writing in 
1649, speaks of the antiquity of the family, 
and quaintly remarks, "They have been so 
independent that some have said they kept a 
boat of their own in the time of the flood, and 
so were under no obligations to Noah." Sir 
Nicholas Ridley, who married IVIary, daugh- 
ter of Corwin of Workington, is thought to 
have been the direct ancestor of Robert Rid- 
ley, who married Elizabeth Abridgton in 
England, and came in the ship Dorset to 
America in 1635. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 69 

His son was William Ridley, of South- 
ampton, Virginia ; his grandson was William 
Ridley, of Granville, North Carolina, who 
married Elizabeth, daughter of Howell 
Lewis and his wife, Isabella Willis. 



70 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



Col. Robert Lewis^ 

Of -Belvoir." 

Among the most notable homes of Vir- 
ginia about the close of the seventeenth 
century was "Warner Hall," in Gloucester 
County. The estate was a part of land 
which had belonged to the Chiskiack Indians, 
but which was later included in a grant 
issued to Colonel Augustine Warner. 

It was probably given as a dowry to 
Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Augustine 
Warner, who married Colonel John Lewis. 
The home is supposed to have been built by 
him, and though at first it may have been a 
modest structure, later was a very imposing 
manor-house containing forty rooms. 

This home was a centre from which went 
out to the world men and women who exer- 
cised a strong and formative influence upon 
the communities in which they lived. 







EWfS. 




ALFRED THE GREAT. 71 

One of these children was Colonel 
Charles Lewis, to whose family the preceding 
sketch relates. Another was Colonel Robert 
Lewis, of "Belvoir," Albemarle County, 
Virginia, baptized May 4, 1702, who married 
Jane Meriwether, daughter of Nicholas 
Meriw^ether and his wife, Elizabeth Crafford. 
Elizabeth Crafford was daughter of David 
Crafford or Crawford, who was born in 
Scotland. 

This Nicholas Meriw'ether, who died in 
Goochland County, Virginia, in 1744, was a 
vestryman of St. Peter's Church, New Kent 
County, justice of the peace of New Kent, 
sheriff of the same county, and member of 
the House of Burgesses. 

He was a son of Nicholas Meriwether, 
who came to America from Wales, and died 
in Surry County, Virginia, December 19, 
1678. 

To Colonel Robert LewMS and his wife, 
Jane Meriwether, were born cle\'cn chib 
dren : 

T, Nicholas, wlio married Mary Walker, 
daughter of Dr. Thomas Walker, of Castle 
Hill, and his wife Mildred Thornton. 

2. John, who married Anne . 



72 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



3. William, who married Lucy Meri- 
wether, and had Meriwether Lewis. 

4. Jane Meriwether, who married her 
cousin, John Lewis, son of Colonel Charles 
Lewis, of "The Byrd." 

5. Mary, who married Samuel Cobb, of 
Louisa County. 

6. Mildred, who married Major John 
Lewis, of Spotsylvania County, son of Zach- 
ary Lewis. 

7. Isabella, died young. 

8. Elizabeth, who married Rev. Robert 
Barret. 

9. Charles, who married Mary ; 

they had Howell and Charles Warner. 

10. Sarah . 

11. Robert, who married his cousin, 
Frances Lewis, daughter of Colonel Charles 
Lewis, of "The Byrd." 

Colonel Robert Lewis died 1757, and his 
will is recorded in that year. 

Nicholas Lewis, son of Colonel Robert 
Lewis, of "Belvoir," and his wife, Jane 
Meriwether, was deputy from Albemarle 
County, September, 1775, for the District of 
Buckingham, which met to provide for the 
defence of the district. September 9th he 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 73 

was made captain of the Albemarle Minute- 
men. He commandetl a regiment in the 
successful expedition in 1776 against the 
Cherokee Indians, and aside from the quali- 
ties which made him a spirited leader of 
troops, he is said by Jefferson to have been 
"endeared to all who knew him by his 
inflexible probity, courteous disposition, 
benevolent heart, and engaging modesty of 
manner." 

He married ]\Iary Walker, daughter of 
Dr. Thomas Walker, of "Castle Hill," 
Albemarle County, and his wife Mildred 
Thornton. To them were born twelve chil- 
dren, among them — 

1. Thomas Walker Lewis, born 1763; 
died June, 1807; married, 1788, Elizabeth 
Meriwether. 

2. Elizabeth Lewis, born 1769; married. 
February 28, 1788, William Douglas. 

3. Margaret Lewis, born 1785; married 
Charles Lewis Thomas. 

4. ]\[ary Lewis, who married Isaac 
Miller, of Kentucky. 

5. Nicholas Meriw-ether Lewis, born 
August 13. 1767; died September 22, 1818. 
He married his cousin. ^SliUlrcd Hornsby, 



74 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

daughter of Joseph Hornsby, of Wilhams- 
burg, Virginia, and his wife, Mildred Walker 
(daughter of Dr. Thomas Walker and his 
wife, Alildred Thornton). Nicholas Meri- 
wether Lewis and his wife, Mildred Hornsby, 
moved from Virginia to Kentucky, and made 
their home near Louisville, at this time only 
a small settlement. To them were born two 
children, Joseph, who died young, and Annah 
Hornsby. 

Annah Hornsby Lewis married Hancock 
Taylor, son of Colonel Richard Taylor, an 
officer who won distinction in the Revolu- 
tion, and who was a great-grandson of James 
Taylor (who came from Carlisle, England, 
to Virginia about 1635) and his first wife, 

Frances . 

On the maternal side. Hancock Taylor 
was descended from William Brewster and 
Isaac Allerton, of the Mayflozver, and from 
the Lees and Willoughbys of Virginia. He 
was also a brother of Zachary Taylor, 
general in the Mexican war, and later 
President of the United States. 

The home of Annah Hornsby Lewis and 
her husband, Hancock Taylor, was "Spring- 
fields," a handsome estate five miles from 




Hlfiweeilg. 




ALEXANDER KUBIXSUN. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 75 

Louisville, Kentucky. It was a conspicuous 
social centre for the gentry of the county, 
and famed far and wide for its gracious and 
lavish hospitality. A large retinue of slaves 
cultivated the fertile acres, served in the 
house, and attended the masters and mis- 
tresses at home and in their travels. 

In this home grew to maturity ten 
children ; two only are now living, Robert 
Hornsby Taylor, of Florida, and Mary 
Louise Taylor, born May 20, 1824, who 
married Archibald Magill Robinson, of 
Louisville (born in Winchester, Virginia, 
August 23, 1 821). 

Archibald Magill Robinson is a great- 
grandson of Alexander Robinson, who set- 
tled in Baltimore, Maryland, about 1780. 

This Alexander Robinson was descended 
from the Robinsons of England, barons of 
Rokeby. This estate, which has been made 
famous by Sir Walter Scott, still belongs to 
a member of the family. 

On the maternal side, Archibald Magill 
Robinson is descended from the Goldsbor- 
oughs, who were Saxon Thanes, holding 
their estate, "Goldesborough Chase," near 
Knaresborough, Yorkshire, prior to the 
Norman Conquest. 



76 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



To Mary Louise Taylor and her husband, 
Archibald Magill Robinson, were born eleven 
children — 

1. Richard Goldsborough, married Laura 
Pickett Thomas. 

2. Lewis Magill. 

3. John Hancock, married Frances Lynn 
Scruggs. 

4. Annah Walker, married James Henry 
Watson. 

5. Elizabeth Lee. 

6. Robert Lyles. 

7. William Brice, married Elizabeth 
Boyd Rainey. 

8. Arthur Edwards. 

9. Zachary Taylor, married Susan 
Luckett. 

10. Alexander Meade, married Lillian 
Hammond. 

11. Henry Wood. 



Annah Walker Robinson married, Octo- 
ber 5, 1870, James Henry Watson, of 
Mississippi, son of Hon. J. W. C. Watson 
and his wife, Catharine Davis. Hon. J. W. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 77 

C. Watson was member of the Confederate 
Senate, and a leading jurist of his State. 
Catharine Davis was the daughter of Staige 
Davis and his wife, EHzabeth Gardner. 
(EHzabeth Gardner was the daughter of 
John and EHza Gardner, of King and Queen 
County, Virginia.) 

The children of Annah Walker Robinson 
and her husband, James Henry Watson, are : 

Archibald Robinson Watson. 

James Henry Watson, Jr., who married 
June 12, 1900, Katharine Julia Black, a lineal 
descendant of John Alden, of Plymouth 
Colony, and his wife, Priscilla Mullens, or 
Molines. 

Katharine Davis Watson. 

Elizabeth Lee Watson. 



78 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



The record contained in this volume 
closes with the immediate descendants of 
Colonel George Reade, then follows briefly 
the lines of Colonel Clement Read, Colonel 
Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and Colonel 
Robert Lewis, of "Belvoir." It covers a 
thousand years, and presents a record in 
which appears some of the most distin- 
guished names of history. 

Beginning with the Saxons, it comes 
down through Norman, English and Amer- 
ican families, and, in closing, it would seem 
not inappropriate to quote the eloquent 
words of the two latest laureates of the 
English people — 

"Of one-self same stock at first; 
Make them again one people — Norman, English, 
And English Norman : we should have a 
Hand to grasp the world with, 
And a foot to stamp it flat." 



"We severed have been too long; 
But now we have done with a worn-out tale, 
The tale of an ancient wrong, 
And our friendship shall last long 
As love doth last, 
And be stronger than death is strong." 







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ALFRED THE GREAT. 79 



The Cabells. 

Turning to the earlier pages of this 
vokime, where is recorded the marriage of 
Margaret Athehng to Malcohn Canmore, 
King of Scots, the Hne of ascent to Alfred 
the Great is clearly set forth. From that 
point the descent given in this sketch follows 
the line of David, King of Scotland, son of 
Malcolm and Margaret. From this King 
David (A. D. 1153), who married Maud of 
Northumberland, to King Robert Bruce 
First, inclusive, are seven generations. From 
Robert Bruce the line comes unbroken 
through twenty-two generations to Rev. 
Robert Rose, who was born at Wester Alves. 
Scotland, February 12, 1704. and came to 
Virginia. 1725. Not only through this line, 
but four others, was he of royal descent, and 
in the annals of his house are found the 
names of the Stewarts, the Cam[)bells. the 
Earls of Angus, and many others, who were 



8o A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



closely associated with the ruling dynasties 
of Europe. 

On the paternal side he was in the fif- 
teenth generation from Hugh Rose of Easter 
Geddes, who died 1333, and eighth from 
Hugh Rose, Baron of Kilravock, and his 
wife, Lady Margaret Seaton. 

Lady Margaret was a daughter of Alex- 
ander, first Earl of Huntley, and sister of 
George, the second Earl, who married 
Princess Joanna, daughter of James the First 
of Scotland. 

Rev. Robert Rose was ordained by the 
Bishop of London, and after coming to Vir- 
ginia had charge of St. Annes in Essex, 
1 726- 1 747, and of St. Annes in Albemarle, 
1 747- 1 75 1. His strong and forceful per- 
sonality fitted him well for life in this transi- 
tion period, and he was not only a leader, a 
shaper of destinies, but a teacher of the 
gospel. 

In 1735 he discovered the Tye River, a 
branch of the James, and by order of the 
Council was granted an immense tract of 
land on its banks. 

He married (second wife) Ann, daugh- 
ter of Colonel Henry Fitzhugh, of Virginia. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 81 

He died in Richmond, 1751, and was buried 
in old St. John's churchyard, where a monu- 
ment, erected to his memory by a loving 
people, is inscribed, "May his posterity emu- 
late his virtues." 



Colonel Plugh Rose, son of Rev. Robert 
Rose and his wife, Ann Fitzhugh, was born 
September 18, 1743. He was justice of the 
peace for Amherst County from 1765 to his 
death, member of the County Committee of 
i775-'76, a vestryman of Amherst, and after 
1779 of Lexington Parish; was sheriff of 
his county 1776, colonel of militia, county 
lieutenant 1780, and member of the House of 
Delegates i785-'86. 

He married Caroline Matilda Jordan, 
daughter of Colonel Samuel Jordan. 

Judith Scott Rose, a daughter of this 
union, married Landon Cabell, who was born 
February 21, 1765, at "Union Hill," Nelson 
County, Virginia. He was the son of Col- 
onel William Cabell, grandson of Dr. Wil- 
liam Cabell, the emigrant, and was a man of 
rare natural qualities and scholarly attain- 



82 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



ments. His gracious bearing, brilliant con- 
versational gifts, and charming hospitality 
made him the centre of a wide circle of 
admiring friends, and, though he declined 
the most flattering offers of high political 
distinction, he served his generation in many 
positions of trust. 

June I, 1804, he was one of the three 
commissioners appointed by Governor John 
Page to supervise the election of presidential 
electors in Amherst County; was long justice 
of the peace in Amherst prior to 1808, and 
from this date for many years a justice in 
Nelson; of this county he was sheriff, 181 5- 
18 16. In 1834 he died at Rose Hall, and 
here was buried. 



Dr. Robert Henry Cabell, son of Landon 
Cabell and his wife, Judith Scott Rose, was 
born February 19, 1799, at Montezuma, 
Nelson County, Virginia. He was educated 
at William and Mary College, studied medi- 
cine at the University of Pennsylvania, and 
after graduating, 1821, settled in Richmond. 
Here, in 1823, he married Julia Mayo, 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 83 

daughter of Colonel John Mayo and his wife, 
Ahigale DeHart. 

The children of this marriage died in 
childhood; the death of Mrs. Cabell fol- 
lowed, and in i860 Dr. Cabell married Mrs. 
Catherine Eyre Bailey Pelham. She was 
widow of Charles Pelham, of Pelham Manor, 
England, a member of the Eyre family of 
Clifton Castle, County of Galway, Ireland, 
and descended from a line of ancestors noted 
for the brilliance of their intellectual gifts. 
After the civil war. Dr. Cabell moved from 
Virginia to Baltimore, where he died I'Vbru- 
ary, 1876. 



Virginia Catherine Cabell, daughter of 
Dr. Robert Plenry Cabell and his second 
wdfe, Catherine Eyre Bailey Pelham. mar- 
ried, first, B. Howard Tyson. 1"he children 
of this marriage were Virginia Cabell Tyson 
and Juliet Catherine Tyson. She married, 
second, Charles Herman Ruggles, son <->f 
Adjutant-General George D. Ruggles, of the 
United States Army, retired. The children 



84 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



of this marriage are Anna Christie and Alma 
Hammond L'Hommedieu Ruggles. 

Mrs. Virginia Cabell Ruggles, whose 
home is in Milwaukee, is a member of the 
Acorn Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of 
the Virginia Colonial Dames, of the Old 
Dominion Chapter of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution, the New York Chap- 
ter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, is 
recording secretary of the Wisconsin Chap- 
ter of National Daughters of 1812, and 
Councilor for Wisconsin of the Order of the 
Crown. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 85 



Farnsworth. 

Alfred the Great was succeeded by his 
son Edward "The Elder," whose third wife 
was Lady Edgiva, daughter of the Saxon 
Earl Sigelline. Their daughter, Edgiva, 
married Charles the Third, King of France, 
who was a descendant of Charlemagne. 
Louis the Fourth of France, son of Edgiva 
and Charles the Third, married Lady Ger- 
berga de Saxe, daughter of Henry the First, 
Emperor of Germany. 

From this marriage, through many noble 
houses, the Counts d'Auvergne and Anjou, 
Dukes of Bretagne and Normandy, Earls of 
Richmond and others, the line of descent 
comes to the Earls of Harcourt. and to Lady 
Arabella Harcourt, who married Sir John 
de Digby. He died in 1267, and both were 
buried at Tilton. 

Sir Everard de Digby. M. P., c^f Dry- 
stoke, a great-great-great-grandson of this 



86 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 



couple, was High Sheriff of Rutlandshire in 
1459. He and his three brothers were slain 
at Towton, 1461, fighting under the banner 
of Henry the Sixth. His wife was Anne, 
daughter of Sir Francis Clarke of Whyssen- 
dom, Rutland County. 

Their great-great-great-granddaughter, 
Elizabeth Digby, heiress, born 1584, died 
1669, married October 25, 16 14, Enoch 
Lynde of London. He died April 23, 1636. 

The ancestral home of the Digby family, 
Sherborne Castle, is said to be occupied at 
the present time by Lieutenant-Colonel Ed- 
ward Henry Trafalgar, tenth Baron Digby. 

The genealogy of this distinguished 
family is preserved at Sherborne Castle in a 
folio volume of five hundred and eighty-nine 
vellum leaves, the first one hundred and 
sixty-five ornamented with the coats-of-arms 
of the family and its allies, and illuminated 
in the richest manner. 

Simon Lynde, a son of Elizabeth Digby 
and Enoch Lynde, was born in London June 
24, 1624, died November 22, 1687. Like 
other members of his distinguished family, 
he was the recipient of many honors, which 
attested a broad recognition of his worth and 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 87 

station. His presentation to King Charles 
the First, by his near relative, Baron Digby, 
of Sherborne, 1618, and First Earl of Bristol 
1622, took place not many years before the 
king's death. After coming to America, he 
was made Judge of the Superior Court of 
Judicature at Boston, Massachusetts. He 
married, in February, 1652, Hannah, daugh- 
ter of John Newdigate, 

Benjamin Lynde, a son of Judge Simon 
Lynde and Hannah Newdigate, was a Chief 
Justice of Massachusetts, and his son, Benja- 
min Lynde, Jr., succeeded to the same office. 

Judge Samuel Lynde, a son of the latter, 
married j\Lary, daughter of Jarvis Ballard. 
Mary Lynde, their daughter, married Hon. 
John Valentine, of Boston, ''His Majesty's 
Crown Advocate-General" of the provinces 
of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and 
Rhode Island. 

Thomas Valentine (a son of this mar- 
riage) married Elizabeth, granddaughter of 
Sir Charles Hobby, who was knighted by 
Queen Anne at Windsor Castle July 9, 1 705, 
"for services done the Crown in New Eng- 
land." He was an officer in "The Ancient 
and Honorable Artillery Company of Bos- 
ton." 



88 A ROYAL LINEAGE. 



A son of this marriage, Samuel Valen- 
tine, married Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel 
John Jones and his wife, Hannah Simpson. 

Their son, Samuel Valentine, Jr., mar- 
ried Mary Fiske, daughter of Captain Rich- 
ard Fiske, of Framingham, Massachusetts 
(whose family was descended from Symond 
Fiske, Lord of the Manor of Stadhaugh, 
1 399- 1 422. Many distinguished men of let- 
ters have descended from this house). Their 
daughter, Eliza Fiske Valentine, married 
Benjamin Stow Farnsworth, of Boston, and 
had Harriet Eliza Prescott Farnsworth, 
Henrietta Lynde Farnsworth, founder of 
"The Order of the Crown," and Mary Susan 
Valentine Farnsworth, who married William 
Wirt Smith, of Chicago, and had Edna Val- 
entine Smith. 



Some American Descendants 
of Alfred the Great and 
Other Sovereigns. -^ <i ^ 



Some American Descendants of Alfred 
the Great and Other Sovereigns. 

In the subjoined list it will be found that each individual is either 
shown to be descended from a well-known ancestor already traced in 
this volume, or sufficient data is given to connect him or her with the 
royal line in some earlier generation. Blank pages are added, that 
those not entered may include their own lines. 

Mrs. Keller Anderson, iicc Jean Alillar Robertson, daughter of Hon. 
James Robertson and his wife, Anne Lewis Dale ; great-granddaughter 
of Frances Taylor and her husband, Rev. Nathaniel Moore : great-great- 
great-granddaughter of Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his 
wife, Mary Howell. 

Mr. Claude Desha Anderson, great-great-great-great-grandson of 
Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his wife, Mary Howell. 

Jean Keller Anderson, great-great-great-great-granddaughter of 
Colonel Charles Lewis and his wife, Mary Howell. 

Mrs. William Blackburn, ncc Isabella Hinton Miller, great-great- 
great-granddaughter of Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his 
wife, Mary Howell, 

Mrs. Mary Howard Bruce, iicc ALiry Howard, great-great-great- 
great-great-granddaughter of Elizabeth Reade and her husband. Thomas 
Chisman. 

Mrs. Jonathan Bullock, ncc Emma Westcott, eighth in descent from 
William Arnold (and his wife, Christian Peake), who came to America 
in 1636, and was one of the original proprietors of "Providence Planta- 
tions." He was twenty-fifth in descent from Hugh Capet. King of 
France, and his wife Lady Adela of Aquitaine. 



92 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Airs. Frank Percival Bakewell. ncc ]\Iary iMelanie Dean ; daughter of 
Carolyn Simpson and Leonard Yancy Dean ; granddaughter of Mary 
Anne Daniel and William Thomas Simpson; great-granddaughter of 
James Lewis Daniel and Matilda Gauntt ; great-great-granddaughter of 
Elizabeth Lewis and Zadoc Daniel ; great-great-great-granddaughter of 
James Lewis and Susanna Anderson; great-great-great-great-grand- 
daughter of Robert Lewis and Frances Lewis ; great-great-great-great- 
srreat-o-randdaughter of Colonel Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether. 
Issue: Yancy Dean Bakewell. 

Mr. Tilehman Howard Bunch, son of Katharine Henderson and 
Tilghman Howard Bunch. Katharine Henderson was daughter of Eliza- 
beth Cocke and Joseph Henderson. Elizabeth Cocke was seventh in 
descent from Colonel Aloore Fauntleroy and Mary Hill. Colonel Moore 
Fauntleroy was twenty-eighth in descent from Alfred the Great. 

Airs. Susanna Digges Cole Chapman, great-great-great-great-great- 
granddaughter of Sir Dudley Digges and his wife, Lady Mary Kempe. 

Air. Ashton Alexander Chapman, great-grcat-great-great-great-great- 
grandson of Sir Dudley Digges and his wife. Lady Alary Kempe. 

Airs. Walter Silas Crane, ncc Anna Augusta Foard, great-great-great- 
great-granddaughter of Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his 
wife. Alary Howell. 

Airs. Thomas Day, ncc Alary Robertson, great-great-great-grand- 
daughter of Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his wife, Mary 
Howell. 

Aliss Alary Louise Day, great-great-great-great-granddaughter of 
Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his wife Alary Howell. 

Airs. Leonard Yancey Dean, ncc Carolyn Simpson, daughter of Alary 
Anne Daniel and William Thomas Simpson ; granddaughter of James 
Lewis Daniel and his wife, Alatilda Gauntt ; great-granddaughter of 
Elizabeth Lew'is and Zadoc Daniel ; great-great-granddaughter of James 
Lewis and Susanna Anderson ; great-great-great-granddaughter of 
Robert Lewis and his wife, Frances Lewis, who were first cousins, 
children of Colonel Robert Lewis, of "Belvoir," and Colonel Charles 
Lewis, of "The Bvrd." 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 93 

Mr. Leonard Yancey Dean, Jr., son of Carolyn Simpson and Leonard 
Yancey Dean ; grandson of Mary Ann Daniel and William Thomas 
Simpson ; great-grandson of James Lewis Daniel and Matilda Gauntt ; 
great-great-grandson of Elizabeth Lewis and Zadoc Daniel ; great-great- 
great-grandson of James Lewis and Susanna Anderson ; great-great- 
great-great-grandson of Robert Lewis and Frances Lewis; great-great- 
great-great-great-grandson of Colonel Robert Lewis and Jane Meri- 
wether. 

Mr. Joseph Judson Dimock, a descendant of Thomas Dimock, who 
came to America prior to 1635. He is believed to have been a great- 
grandson of Sir Edward Dymoke, Hereditary Champion of England. 
This Thomas Dimoke married Ann Hammond, and died in Barnstable, 
Massachusetts, 1658. 

Mrs. Rice Fant, ncc Elizabeth Hull, great-great-great-granddaughter 
of Colonel Robert Lewis, of "Belvoir," and his wife, Jane Meriwether. 

Mrs. John McEwen Foster, ncc Bessie Terkins Bethel, great-great- 
great-great-granddaughter of Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and 
his wife, Mary Howell. 

Miss Henrietta Lynde Farnsworth, great-great-great-great-great- 
great-great-granddaughter of Judge Simond Lynde and his wife, Hannah 
Newdigate. He was a lineal descendant of Alfred the Great. 

Mrs. William Farrington, ncc Florence Topp, filih in descent from 
Patrick Stuart, Laird, of Ledcreich, came to North Carolina in 1739. 
His wife was Elizabeth Menzies. This Patrick Stuart was twelfth in 
descent from Robert the Second of Scotland and his wife, Lady Elizabeth 
Muir. 

Mr. Louis Ford Garrard, great-great-grandson of Major James Mac- 
Gregor, who came from Scotland and changed his name to TluMuas 
MacGehee, will dated 1727. Through this ancestor he is a lineal descend- 
ant of King David of Scotland as well as of Alfred the Great. 

Miss Isa Gartery Urquhart Glenn, great-great-groat-grcat-great- 
great-granddaughter of Colonel John Smith, of "Purton," and his wife. 
Marv Warner. 

Mrs. Richard r>. Goode, ncc Panthea r.urwrll Goode. great-great- 
great-granddaughter of Colonel Clement Read and his wife. Mary Hill. 



94 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Rev. Horatio Gates, great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of 
Richard Lyman, who came to New England in 1631 ; a Hneal descendant 
of Alfred the Great and Charlemagne. 

Mrs. John A. Halderman, ncc Annie Barbour Doriss, great-grand- 
daughter of Elizabeth Lewis and her husband, Bennett Henderson, great- 
granddaughter of Mary Randolph (who was granddaughter of William 
Randolph, of Turkey Island) and her husband, Charles Lewis. This 
Charles Lewis was son of Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his 
wife, Mary Howell. 

Miss Annie Halderman, great-great-grcat-great-granddaughter of 
Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his wife, Mary Howell. 

Miss Mary Hilliard Hinton, great-great-great-granddaughter of 
Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his wife, Mary Howell. 

Mrs. William Hull, nee Mary Lewis, great-great-granddaughter of 
Colonel Robert Lewis, of "Belvoir," and his wife, Jane Meriwether. 

Mrs. Jane Lewis Jackson, great-great-granddaughter of Colonel 
Robert Lewis, of "Belvoir," and his wife, Jane Meriwether. 

Mr. C. W. Kerns, great-great-great-grandson of Colonel Charles 
Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his wife, Mary Howell. 

Mrs. William King, ncc Augusta Clayton, great-great-great-great- 
granddaughter of Colonel George Reade and his wife, Elizabeth Martian. 

Mr. John Calvin Lewis, great-great-great-grandson of Colonel John 
Lewis and his wife, Frances Fielding. 

Mrs. Sumpter de Leon Lowry, ncc William Robards Miller, great- 
great-great-granddaughter of Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and 
his wife, Mary Howell. 

Mrs. Lemuel Long, ncc Martha Pillow, great-great-great-grand- 
daughter of Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his wife, Mary 
Howell. 

Mrs. August Mayer, ncc Mattie Robards, great-great-great-grand- 
daughter of Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his wife, Mary 
Howell. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 95 

Mrs. John D. Martin, nee Walker Hull, great-great-great-grand- 
daughtcr of Colonel Robert Lewis, of "Belvoir," and his wife, Jane Meri- 
wether. 

Mrs. John Marshall, ncc Rebecca Smith, great-great-great-grand- 
daughter of Mary Warner and her husband. Colonel John Smith, of 
"Purton." 

Dr. Daniel Henry Morgan, great-great-great-great-grandson of Mary 
Warner and her husband. Colonel John Smith, of "rurton." 

Mrs. William Moncure, ncc Belle Chapman, great-great-great-great- 
great-great-granddaughter of Sir Dudley Digges and his wife, Lady 
Mary Kempe. 

Mrs. Thomas L. Moore, ncc Ethel Bland Dean, daughter of Carolyn 
Simpson and Leonard Yancey Dean, granddaughter of Mary Ann Daniel 
and William Thomas Simpson ; great-granddaughter of James Lewis 
Daniel and Matilda Gauntt ; great-great-granddaughter of Elizabeth 
Lewis and Zadoc Daniel ; great-great-great-granddaughter of James 
Lewis and Susanna Anderson ; great-great-great-great-granddaughtcr of 
Robert Lewis and Francis Lewis, first cousins, and children of Colonel 
Robert Lewis, of "Belvoir," and Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd." 

Mr. Richard Micou, great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Mil- 
dred Reade and her husband, Colonel Philip Rootcs. of "Rosewall." 

Mrs. William Arthur McNeill, nee Rebecca (or Reebie) Park Metcalf, 
granddaughter of Rebecca Cocke and William Park ; eighth in descent 
from Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Cocke; also eighth in descent from 
Colonel Moore Fauntleroy and Mary Hill (their marriage contract dated 
1648). Colonel Moore Fauntleroy was nineteenth in descent from Lady 
Isobel (or Elizabeth) de Vermandois. who was granddaughter of Henry 
the First of France (and his wife, Anne of Russia), and ele\'enth in de- 
scent from Charlemagne. Elizabeth de Vermandois was eighth in descent 
from Alfred tiie Great. 

Mrs. Peter Randolpli Neff, nee Josephine Clark I'.in-nett, great-grcat- 
great-great-granddaughter of James Claypoole and bis wife, I Iclcn 
Merces. James Claypoole was son of Sir John Claypoole, of Latham, 
Lincolnshire, England, who was twenty-tbinl in descent from Alfred the 
Great. 



96 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Mrs. Calvin Perkins, iicc Susie Ashton Chapman, granddaughter of 
William Cole and his wife, Alary T. Alexander ; great-great-great-great- 
great-great-granddaughter of Sir Dudley Digges and his wife, Lady Mary 
Kempe. Sir Dudley Digges was a lineal descendant of Alfred the Great. 

Mr. Blakeney Perkins, great-great-great-great-great-great-great- 
grandson of Sir Dudley Digges and his wife. Lady Mary Kempe. 

Mr. Ashton Chapman Perkins, great-great-grcat-grcat-great-great- 
great-grandson of Sir Dudley Digges and his wife, Lady Mary Kempe. 

Miss Belle Moncure Perkins, great-great-great-great-great-great- 
great-granddaughter of Sir Dudley Digges and his wife. Lady Mary 
Kempe. 

Mr. Louis Allen Perkins, great-great-great-great-great-great-great- 
grandson of Sir Dudley Digges and his wife, Lady Mary Kempe. 

Mr. William Alexander Perkins, great-great-great-great-great-great- 
great-grandson of Sir Dudley Digges and his wife. Lady Mary Kempe. 

Mrs. Carrie Reade Pickens, great-great-great-granddaughter of Col- 
onel Clement Read and his wife, Mary Hill. 

Mr. John Read Pickens, Mr. Henry Berlin Pickens, great-great-great- 
great-grandsons of Colonel Clement Reade and his wife, Mary Hill. 

Mr. Jerome Bonaparte Pillow, great-great-great-grandson of Colonel 
Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his wife, Mary Howell. 

Mrs. James F. Read, iicc Lena Garvin Park, daughter of Rebecca 
Cocke and William Park ; eighth in descent from Lieutenant-Colonel 
Richard Cocke ; also eighth in descent from Colonel Moore Fauntleroy 
and Mary Hill (their marriage contract dated 1648). Colonel Moore 
Fauntleroy was nineteenth in descent from Lady Isobel (or Elizabeth) 
de Vermandois, who was granddaughter of Henry the First of France 
(and his wife, Anne of Russia), and eleventh in descent from Charle- 
magne. Elizabeth de Vermandois was eighth in descent from Alfred the 
Great. 

Mr. Samuel Roberson Read, great-great-great-grandson of Colonel 
Clement Read and his wife, Mary Hill; great-great-great-great-great- 
grandson of Colonel George Reade and his wife Elizabeth Martian. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 97 

Mary Hill Read, great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Colonel 
Clement Read and his wiie, Mary Hill. 

Elizabeth Nash Read, great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Col- 
onel Clement Read and his wife, Mary Hill. 

Margaret Read, great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Colonel 
Clement Read and his wife, Mary Hill. 

Mr. Martin Sims Read, great-great-great-great-grandson of Colonel 
Clement Read and his wife, Mary Hill. 

Mr. Melancthon C. Read, through Colonel Clement Read and his wife, 
Mary Hill, great-great-great-great-grandson of Colonel George Reade 
and his wife, Elizabeth Martian. 

Mr. Edward Randolph Read, great-great-grandson of Colonel 
Clement Read and his wife, Mary Hill. 

Mr. Alston Read, great-great-great-grandson of Colonel Clement 
Read and his wife, Mary Hill. 

Mr. William Robards, great-great-great-grandson of Colonel Charles 
Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his wife, Mary Howell. 

Mrs. Charles H. Ruggles, nee Virginia Cabell, great-great-grand- 
daughter of Rev. Robert Rose, of Scotland, later of Virginia, who was a 
lineal descendant of King David of Scotland and Alfred the Great. 

Mrs. Archibald Alagill Robinson, iice Alary Louise Taylor, great- 
great-granddaug"hter of Colonel Robert Lewis, of "Belvoir," and his wife, 
Jane Aleriwether. 

Mr. Richard Goldsborough Robinson, great-great-great-grandson of 
Colonel Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether, 

Mr. John Hancock Robinson, great-great-great-grandson of Colonel 
Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether. 

Mr. William Bryce RoImusou, great-great-grcat-grandson of Colonel 
Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether. 

Mr. Zachary Taylor Robinson, great-great-great-grandson of Colonel 
Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether. 

Mr. Alexander Meade Robinson, great-great-great-grandson of Col- 
onel Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether. 



98 A ROYAL LINEAGE: 

Mr. Henry Wood Robinson, great-great-great-grandson of Colonel 
Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether. 

Miss Elizabeth Lee Robinson, great-great-great-granddanghter of 
Colonel Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether. 

INIiss Clarissa Roberts Skinner, daughter of Clarissa R. Bancroft and 
Ebenezer Roberts, through her father a lineal descendant of Rev. Ger- 
shom Buckley and his wife, Sarah Chauncey. Through the Chaimcey 
line a direct descendant of King Henry the First of France and his third 
wife. Anne of Russia. 

Mrs. Edgar P. Sawyer, ncc Alary Eleanor Jewell, great-great-great- 
great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Chauncey (who landed at 
Plymouth in 1638) and his wife, Catharine Eyre. Through these ances- 
tors she is thirty-second in descent from Alfred the Great. (See SoiCyer 
Jezvell Lineage, by Horatio Gates.) 

Mrs. Francis Lee Smith, iice Sarah Gosnell A^owell. great-great-great- 
great-granddaughter of Mildred Reade and her husband, Colonel Augus- 
tine Warner. 

Dr. Charles M. Smith, great-great-great-grandson of Mary Warner 
and her husband, Colonel John Smith, of "Purton." 

Mrs. William Wirt Smith, nee Mary Susan Valentine Farnsworth, 
lienal descendant of Alfred the Great through Judge Simond Lynde and 
his wife, Hannah Newdigate. 

Miss Edna \'alentine Smith, great-great-great-great-great-great- 
great-great-granddaughter of Judge Simond L3mde and his wife, Hannah 
Newdigate. 

Miss Margaret \'o\vell Smith, great-great-great-great-granddaughter 
of Mary Warner and her husband. Colonel John Smith, of "Purton," 

Mrs. William Howard Stovall, nee Roberta Lewis Franks, grand- 
daughter of Dr. Robert Flenry Lewis and his wife, Sarah Ann Minter; 
great-great-great-granddaughter of Colonel Robert Lewis, of "Belvoir," 
and his wife, Jane Meriwether. 

Mrs. Benjamin S. Story, nee Jeanie Washington Campbell, daughter 
of Jane Wray Washington and her husband, Charles Campbell ; grand- 
daughter of Needham Langhorne Washington and his wife Sarah Ashton 
Alexander, claiming royal descent through the first Earl of Stirling. 



ALFRED THE GREAT. 



99 



Mr. Robert Hornsby Taylor, great-great-grandson of Colonel Robert 
Lewis, of "Ijelvoir," and his wife Jane Meriwether. 

Mrs. Lucius IL Terry, nee Mary E. Robards, great-great-great- 
granddaughter of Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Hyrd," and his wife, 
Mary Howell. 

Mr. William Wirt Clayton Torrence, great-great-great-grcat-great- 
great-grandson of Colonel George Reade and his wife, Elizabeth Martian. 

Miss Patty Thunini, great-great-great-granddaughter of Colonel 
Robert Lewis, of "Belvoir," and his wife, Jane Meriwether. 

Mrs. James Henry Watson, nee Annah Walker Robinson, daughter of 
Mary Louise Taylor and her husband. Archibald Magill Robinson ; great- 
great-great-granddaughter of Colonel Robert Lewis, of "Belvoir,'' and 
his wife, Jane Meriwether. 

Mr. Archibald Robinson Watson, great-great-great-great-grandson of 
Colonel Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether. 

Mr. James Henry Watson, great-great-great-great-grandson of 
Colonel Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether. 

Miss Katharine Davis Watson, great-great-great-great-granddaugh- 
ter of Colonel Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether. 

Miss Elizabeth Lee Watson, great-great-great-great-granddaughter 
of Colonel Robert Lewis and Jane Meriwether. 

Mr. William Ward Wight, great-great-grandson of Rev. Th(5mas 
Potwine and his wife, Abigal Mosely, of Windsor, Connecticut. Through 
these ancestors, also Frances Chister, Jane Fortescue and Sir Richard 
Champernownc, of Devonshire, England, he is a lineal descendant of 
Alfred the Great. 

Mr. John Nash Wilson, great-great-grandson of Colonel Clement 
Read and his wife, Mary Plill. 

Mrs. W. Blackburn Wilson, ncc Lsabella Hinton Miller, great-great- 
great-granddaughter of Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," aiul his 
wife, Mary Howell. 

Mr. John B. White, great-great-great-great-great-grandson of John 
Prescott and his wife, Mary Platts. John Prescott was son of Ralfe 
and Ellen Prescott, Shevington, Parish of Standish. Lancaster. Englan<l. 



TOO A ROYAL LINEAGE. 

who was a descendant of Alfred the Great through William Fitz Gilbert 
(Governor of Lancaster Castle, fifth Baron of Kendal) and his wife, 
Gunred, Countess of Warick, daughter of William de Warrenne and his 
wife, Elizabeth de \^ermandois. 

Mr. Pleasants Woodson White, grandson of John Kennon and his 
wife, Elizabeth Woodson, great-grandson of Elizabeth Lewis and lier 
husband, William Kennon (of Chesterfield), great-great-grandson of 
Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his wife, Mary Howell. 

Mr. Walker Welford, great-great-great-grandson of Colonel Robert 
Lewis, of "Belvoir," and his wife, Jane Meriwether. 

Mrs. R. W. Williamson, nee Mary E. White, great-great-great-grand- 
daughter of Colonel Clement Read and his wife, Mary Hill. 

Mrs. Sallie Halderman Wilson, great-great-great-great-granddaugh- 
ter of Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his wife, Mary Howell. 

Dr. James Howell Wilkes, great-great-great-grandson of Colonel 
Charles Lewis, of "The Byrd," and his wife, Mary Howell. 



Lewis AddendNw, 

On pa^c 6i, among the children of Colonel Charles Lewis, of "The 
Byrd," will be found the name of Frances. On page 71, among the 
children of Colonel Robert Lewis, of "Belvoir," that of Robert (Colonel 
Robert Lewis, of Louisa County). These two, Robert and Frances 
Lewis, first cousins, married. Their son, Charles Lewis, born 1773, died 
December 17, 1819; married, about 1795, Nancy . 

They moved to Sumner County, Tennessee, where he died, leaving 
eight children, among them Jane Meriwether, who married K. llarralson, 
and Dr. Robert Henry Lewis, born May 20, i8[i, died January i, 1871. 
He married, April 22, 1835, Sarah Ann Minter (daughter of William and 
Elizabeth Waggoner Minter), who was born December 25. 1815. died 
April 12, 1878. To them were born. i. Charles; 2, Joseph; 3, Emily; 
4. Robert H. ; 5. William Minter ; 6, Bailey Peyton ; 7, Patterson ; 8, Mary 
Louisa, born April 29, 1848, married. January 22, 1868, Natt Holman ; 
issue, William S., born September 16. 1870 (married Louisa Kaulbach). 
Anna May, born 1874; Natt, born 1875; Virginia, born 1878 (married 
Thomas G. Moore); Lou Minter, born 1881; Emma IL. born 1885; 
John T., born 1886. 

9, Rosa E., born May 3, 1852. married George D. Perkins ; issue. 
Henry W'right. Robert (died young), George. 

10, Roberta H., born October 22. 1854, married June 19. 1873. John N. 
Hall; issue. Robert Lewis, born 1874; Irene, born 1876; John Nesbit. 
born 1880; Natt H., born 1884; William Minter, born 1890. 

11, Lamira Jane, born July 14, 1846. in East Feliciana Parish. La., 
where her parents had made their home in 1840. ( In 1853 they moved to 
Texas.) She married, September 25. 1867. Captain Richard Henry 
Franks (son of John and Mary Ann Ward Franks, of Edgefield District, 
South Carolina), died near La (jrange, Texas. October 9. 1870. Only 
one child of this marriage reached maturity, Roberta Lewis Franks, born 
near La Grange, I'ayette County, Texas, September 28. 1870. married. 
July 7. 189 1, at Calvary Church. Memphis. Tennessee. William Howard 
Stovall. of Mississippi (who was born h'ehruary 20, 1834, son (^f William 
Howard and Martha Minter Stovall). 

William Howard Stovall. Jr., son of William Howard and Roberta 
Lewas Franks Stovall. was born at "Prairie Plantation." Coahoma 
County. Mississi[)pi, February 20. 1895. 



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